Our data

An overview of how Altmetric collects and displays altmetrics.

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Our sources

A unique mixture of academic and mainstream sources helps to build a more complete picture of the research impact.

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How does it work?

Find out how our technology tracks, collates, and disambiguates shares and mentions of articles, books, reports, grey literature, and more.

Altmetric Details Page

A collated, real-time record of the online attention for an individual piece of scholarly content.

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The donut and the score

Our colorful visualization and score provide an at-a-glance summary of the activity for an individual output.

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