Altmetric Tools
Knowing who is talking about your research and what they’re saying is crucial in today’s digital work of every researcher. Ensuring your work is being accurately represented and interpreted, as well as reaching the right people at the right time, can contribute to your broader impact.
With next-generation metrics - also known as altmetrics - you can start to track this information as soon as your research is published – without having to wait for citations – and engage directly with your audience.
Through the Library’s license to the worldwide altmetric database Scopus PlumX Metrics and some free platforms such as Altmetric Tool and Dimension can able to browse and report on all of the attention data for research published by your faculty
Scopus PlumX Metrics : Search your documents in Scopus and see your research's impact on social media with PlumX metrics of your publications.
Altmetric: Bookmarklet for Researchers: If you want to find out the Altmetric details for a paper you’ve published, install free bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari to view the online shares and mentions of an article with a single click.
Dimensions (Free Version): Dimensions contains more than 100 million publications, ranging from articles published in scholarly journals, books and book chapters, to preprints and conference proceedings. All publications are contextualized with linked data sets, funding, publications, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents. You can also view associated categories, funders, institutions, and researcher profiles.
