Altmetric Researcher Search: Discover the people behind the research

Posted by Arantxa Beiztegui on 15th September 2025

Altmetric has expanded its capabilities with the launch of Researcher Search, a new feature within Altmetric Explorer that enables comprehensive analysis of researcher-level influence and engagement.

Traditionally, Altmetric has provided output-level insights into how individual papers are discussed across policy, media, blogs, and social platforms. With Researcher Search, these insights are now aggregated across a researcher’s entire body of work, providing a complete and real-time view of their visibility and impact.

A new perspective on research influence

Researcher Search addresses the growing need for organizations to understand the people driving scientific engagement, not just the outputs they produce. Users can search by name, ORCID, or affiliation to access researcher profiles that:

• Aggregate attention across all outputs, spanning news, policy, blogs, Wikipedia, and social media.
• Track researcher influence over time to reveal rising experts and emerging voices.
• Map connections and collaborations, helping to identify potential partners and strategic opportunities.

Benefits across sectors

• For enterprise teams, Researcher Search supports faster expert discovery, enabling medical affairs, clinical development, and scientific communications teams to identify key opinion leaders, assess potential collaborators, and strengthen strategic decision-making.
• For academic institutions, the feature provides a scalable, accurate way to evaluate and benchmark researcher impact. Research offices, department heads, and individual scholars can use these insights to strengthen funding cases, compile impact narratives, and inform institutional strategy.
• For publishers and funders, Researcher Search delivers portfolio-wide intelligence into researcher visibility, helping to shape editorial decisions, author engagement, and funding strategies.

From insight to action

Integrated into Advanced Search, Researcher Search makes it simple to discover, evaluate, and share researcher insights. Whether planning clinical trials, preparing grant applications, shaping editorial campaigns, or evaluating funded projects, the feature eliminates manual data collection and enables faster, evidence-based decisions.

With Researcher Search, Altmetric enables the transition from tracking individual research outputs to understanding the people behind them, helping organizations and institutions identify influence, anticipate innovation, and strengthen engagement strategies.

Contact our support team to schedule a demonstration.