Research Guides: Article Metrics for Researchers: Altmetrics Tracking Tools

Altmetrics Tracking Tools

ImpactStory

Started as Total-Impact in 2011; later co-founded by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem in 2012.
Funded by Open Society Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and NSF.
Open source and free (used to charge $60 in September 19, 2014, then it stopped).
Users can log in via ORCID or Twitter account.
Aggregates metrics from a variety of sources: 1) Open metrics; 2) With contex: sort metrics by engagement type and audience; 3) Diverse products: Datasets, software, slides, and other research products are presented as an integrated section of a comprehensive impact report, alongside articles
On June 23, 2017, Announcement was made that it partners with Clarivate Analytics to make open access content easire for researchers to use. http://news.clarivate.com/2017-06-23-Clarivate-Analytics-announces-landmark-partnership-with-Impactstory-to-make-open-access-content-easier-for-researchers-to-use.

Altmetric.com

Founded by Euan Adie in 2011, based in London.
One of the altmetrics tracking tools to track and analyze the online activities around scholarly literature.
Altmetric donuts : The number in the center of the donut is the Altmetric score. The colors surrounding the donut reflect the mix of sources mentioning that score - blue for Twitter, yellow for blogs, red for mainstream media sources, etc.
The Altmetric Explorer captures tweets, blog posts, news stories and other content that mention scholarly articles weekly. It also lets researchers monitor, search and measure conversations about their publications and those of their peers.
The Altmetric Badges – impact visualized.
The Altmetric Bookmarklet - gets article level metrics for recent papers for free. For more info, read Altmetrics in Action: applications for researchers. How to install the Altmetric Bookmarklet? Watch this video.

Plum Analytics

Founded by Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman in late 2011.
To assess research by analyzing the five categories of metrics: Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media, Citations
Plum Analytics tracks more than 20 different types of artifacts, including journal articles, books, videos, presentations, conference proceedings, datasets, source code, cases, and more.
Acquired by EBSCO in January 2014. On Feb 2, 2017, it was acquired by Elsevier from EBSCO. It is integrated into Elsevier's products like Scopus, ScienceDirect, SciVal, and Pure. https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/corporate/elsevier-acquires-leading-altmetrics-provider-plum-analytics
Step 4, 2014 - ORCID and Plum Analytics Collaboration
PlumX is the tool to harvest metrics from various online sources and the impact dashboard for measuring research output.
University of Pittsburgh is the 1st institution to implement PlumX
Available via subscription.

Last updated: July 7, 2017

Who are interested in altmetrics?

Some of these are obvious:

Authors

Researchers

Administrators

Publishers

Librarians

Editors

Metrics analysts

And

Funders

Databases tracking Altmetrics

IEEE Xplore: As of February 24th, 2016, articles published in IEEE and IET journals will include the Altmetric donut on the metrics tab of their IEEE Xplore article page. Example: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6740844/metrics

EBSCO databases and Plum Analytics. Example: MathSciNet

PLoS http://journals.plos.org/plosone/