Research Impact Metrics: Altmetrics
A guide for those wanting to use research impact metrics for evaluation, analytics, and reviews, e.g., promotion & tenure.
Search across Authors, Research Groups, Departments, & Institutions
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Altmetric Explorer for InstitutionsAltmetric Explorer for Institutions is an intuitive, web-based platform that enables users to search, monitor, and measure altmetrics: mentions and conversations surrounding the research outputs of specific authors, research groups, departments, and institutions.
Use Altmetrics to Track Attention to Individual Research Outputs
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AltmetricCompany focusing on providing tools and source data for alternative metrics, or altmetrics using their scope definition of this term.
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Altmetric BookmarkletWant to find out the Altmetric details for a research article or other output? Install the free bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari to view the online shares and mentions of an article with a single click.
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Using Altmetric Data Responsibly: A Guide to Interpretation and Good PracticeThis guide focuses specifically on data from the data provider and company, Altmetric, but other types of altmetrics are mentioned and occasionally used as a comparison in this guide, such as the Open Syllabus database to find the educational engagement with scholarly outputs.
Overton - Search Citing Policy Documents
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OvertonOverton tracks documents from white papers, policy briefs, and hearing transcripts to national clinical guidelines from government agencies, think tanks and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have cited scholarly articles and other policies from all over the world. The documents may be a website, PDF or other document.