PlumX is More than Just Altmetrics–Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
Research Reveals PlumX from Plum Analytics is Not Just Altmetrics Recently, Plum Analytics President Andrea Michalek spent time with author J. Michael Lindsay, MSIS, AHIP, Associate Professor, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Graduate Preston Medical Library, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Read More
The Book on Book Altmetrics from PlumX
We recently created an infographic to describe the research and metrics that PlumX covers. In that process we took a look at how many books and book chapters PlumX tracks. As you can see above, PlumX tracks 4.1 million books and book chapters. Read More
Telling the Story of Research Through Altmetrics Categories
In order to tame the big data of all the possible online interactions with all the different types of research output, PlumX categorizes them into 5 categories. Each category tells a different story of research. Read More
PlumX Customers Track 67 Different Types of Research Output
We recently created an Infographic to describe what research PlumX tracks and discovered some interesting facts about what our customers consider research. Just two examples of different artifacts we’ve heard about recently from our customers are a YouTube video of a musical score created by a music professor and an important book written by a psychology faculty member. Read More
More Ways to Tell the Stories of Research
We founded Plum Analytics with the vision of providing modern metrics to help anyone who performs, funds or publishes research, to tell the stories of their research through greater insight to what is happening with it around the world. Read More
New Capture Metrics Launched
PlumX tracks 5 categories of metrics: usage, mentions, social media, citations, and captures. Metrics that we categorize as captures are when an individual is interacting with research online and “captures” it for later. Examples of capture metrics that are already a part of PlumX are: Bookmarking the page on Delicious Adding it to Elsevier’s Mendeley as a reader Favoriting a slide presentation on Slideshare Favoriting a video on YouTube Subscribing to a channel on Vimeo or YouTube Followers, Read More
PlumX Adds Further Book Support with Goodreads Metrics
PlumX Includes Usage Metrics from EBSCO
Plum Analytics and Altmetrics: In The News
We are amazed at how quickly altmetrics has turned from a “fringe” topic to one that is on everyone’s mind. This is evidenced by how many people are writing and talking about it just in the past month alone. We want to share some of the most interesting of these articles so you can keep up with this emerging area. Read More