Altmetric Bookmarklet
- Install free Altmetric bookmarkletInstall free Altmetric bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari to view the online shares and mentions of an article with a single click. Works on PubMed, arXiv or pages containing a DOI with Google Scholar friendly citation metadata
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How to Make Article-Level Metrics Work for You
- Communicate your impact - Feature article-level metrics on your public profile pages
- Let your funders know - The ability to demonstrate that your research generates significant interest could help secure the advantage you need in a tight, competitive funding environment.
- Raise your career profile - Showcase the influence of your work when you apply for tenure and promotion or when you apply for positions outside academia
- Discover Research That Matters - Article-level metrics may guide you to the most important and influential work.
- Connect with Collaborators
Learn More
- Metrics ToolkitProvides evidence-based information about research metrics across disciplines, including how each metric is calculated, where you can find it, and how each should (and should not) be applied.
- Article-Level Metrics A SPARC Primer (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)An overview of what article-level metrics are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities, and how they can be used in the tenure and promotion process.
- The Plum Print: Coming to a Result List Near You (Plum Analytics)Learn more about Plum Print and its components.
- Altmetrics: Value all research products (2013)What a difference a word makes. For all new grant applications from 14 January, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) asks a principal investigator to list his or her research “products” rather than “publications” in the biographical sketch section.
Emerging Metrics
For decades, scholars - and those who evaluate them - have had a limited set of options when it comes to metrics to measure the impact of their work. As scholarship has moved deeper into the digital realm, new opportunities to track its reach and utility have been created. New metrics are arising that can tell us something about scholarly works on a much more granular level than ever before. These article level metrics hold the promise to help tell a much richer story about a scholars work than a single measure could ever hope to do.
- Public of Library of Science (PLOS)"Traditionally, the impact of research articles has been measured by the publication journal. But a more informative view is one that examines the overall performance and reach of the articles themselves. Article-Level Metrics are a comprehensive set of impact indicators that enable numerous ways to assess and navigate research most relevant to the field itself."
- ImpactStory."No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. We call for more tools and research based on altmetrics."
- Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)"ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers."