Altmetric
Altmetric begin collating the online mentions and shares of your research across the sources we track as soon as it’s published, meaning you can get almost immediate feedback on how it’s being received long before any citation data becomes available.
- Altmetric for ResearchersTrack and demonstrate the reach and influence of your work to key stakeholders
- The Altmetric Top 100 2020Altmetric's top 100 articles list for 2020.
- All the News That Fits — What’s Really Driving Altmetric’s Top 100 Articles List?The Scholarly Kitchen blog.
Altmetric's Tools for Researchers include:
1. Altmetric Bookmarklet
- Altmetric BookmarkletWant to find out the Altmetric details for a paper you've published? Install this free plugin on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to see the Altmetric data for any publication with a DOI. Click on the Altmetric donut to view the full details page for each output.
The Altmetric bookmarklet can be downloaded and integrated into your browser to view the altmetrics of an article you may be reading online at the click of a button. For it to work, the item must have a DOI. Some publications are not captured by Altmetric yet and therefore will not display any Altmetric score.
2. Altmetric Badges
- Altmetric BadgesThe Altmetric badges enable you to showcase the online attention surrounding your research, and it’s free to embed them in your individual profile or publications page in just a few simple steps. Watch the introductory video on this page to learn how.
3. Altmetric API
- Altmetric APIThe Altmetric API is free to use for research purposes. You can use it to query their entire database (which currently contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs).