Definition
Alternative metrics or altmetrics are a family of indicators that measure the impact of research quantifying its presence
on the social web. The name comes from the concept "alternative metrics" or complement to more traditional impact
factor and bibliographic citations. And also from the concept “article-level metrics”.
Altmetric.com
Example taken from the UPF Scientific output:
Altmetric.com is a system that tracks the attention that research outputs such as scholarly articles and datasets receive online and presents it with their donuts with the score and colors for each group of indicators.
- It provides the altmetric data of: Nature, Springer, SCOPUS, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, etc.
- It provides the altmetric bookmarklet, and enables you to instantly see Altmetric data for any published research output with a DOI.
Impactstory
Impactstory creates profiles for researchers offering the online altmetrics of their publications
Example:
Plum Analytics
Plum Analytics tracks the attention that research outputs receive online and presents
it with its icon.
- It's aimed to track the publications of an institution.
- Provides the altmetric data of Ebsco journals
- By adding the DOI of an article in this URL (https://plu.mx/a/?doi=), you can obtain some altmetric data.
Example taken from Scopus:
Who is doing research on alternative metrics?
