Altmetric track a unique range of online sources to capture the conversations relating to research outputs
We monitor the following sources for mentions of research outputs to bring you the most relevant and up to date picture of the online activity and discussion:
We now track research mentions in Cassyni seminars, scholarly talks where researchers present and discuss their work. This provides a fuller, more accurate picture of where and how research is being discussed and received by the broader community.
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Track mentions of your research resonating across new audiences, ensuring you don’t miss the real-world conversations shaping public understanding of research with podcasts as an attention source in Altmetric.
We now track clinical guidelines data that provides guidance on how to make decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical situations.
Capture and analyze social engagement with a fresher, more comprehensive view of your research influence with Bluesky as an attention source in Altmetric.
We track and text mine a range of public policy sources globally, looking for references to published research.
Our mainstream media tracking offers a unique insight into where a piece of research has attracted high-profile coverage from over 4,000 outlets around the world.
Displayed on the details pages but not included in the Altmetric score are the number of Mendeley users who have saved the research to their library.
You can view a breakdown of the demographics (location, discipline, etc) of these users on the summary tab details page.
Also included in our coverage are evaluations of individual outputs from contributors to open post-publication peer-review forum Publons.
We track a range of social networks for mentions of research outputs – all of these are then displayed on the details page for complete transparency. E.g X/Twitter, Facebook (mentions on curated list of public pages only), and Bluesky.
Using data from IFI CLAIMS®, we track references found in patents filed with nine international patents offices so that users can understand the global economic impacts of published research.
We currently track the 31 different language versions of Wikipedia for citations to published research, with new mentions or edits being identified automatically.
Our system scans a manually curated list of over 9,000 academic and non-academic blogs every day.
Recommendations of individual research outputs from H1 Connect.
We provide Dimensions citations data in the Explorer for Publishers, Explorer for Institutions and on details pages for outputs that have received attention from the other sources we track.
Web of Science (where licensed) citation information is also available within both Explorer platforms. Users are able to see the total citation count and 3 citing articles in the Altmetric details page for the item, and click through to view the full record.
We also monitor a selection of other sites and community forums: – YouTube – Reddit – Q&A (stack overflow)
We have historical data from the Open Syllabus Project that is displayed on the details pages of individual books to showcase where those titles appear in the course syllabi of over 4,000 institutions around the world.
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