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This guide was created by Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, and Amanda Izenstark, 3/2014.
Updated 2/2014, 4/2015, and 1/2018.
Altmetrics Tools for Researchers
Altmetrics tools for individual researchers can help you:
- Compile citations, share and promote all forms of your scholarly output (writing, datasets, presentations, etc.)
- Bring together usage statistics from online sources such as citations managers, news outlets, digital repositories, and social media sites
Try these two easy-to-use tools:
- ORCID (free)
- Creates a unique, persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other authors
- Imports your citations from other online repositories into a researcher profile
- Provides information to altmetrics tools like ImpactStory
- ImpactStory (free)
- Creates a researcher profile based on ORCID ID and Scopus data
- For each citation, shows altmetrics statistics from social media
Altmetrics Tools for Institutions
Institutions can choose to embed altmetrics in theri institutional repositories or researcher profiles. Two commonly used services are Altmetric.com and Plum Analytics. Both of these tools index a wide range of altmetrics.
URI faculty with scholarly articles in DigitalCommons@URI can now view altmetrics statistics, including saved citations (e.g. Mendeley), blog mentions, social media shares, and more.
From most faculty publications in the repository, click on either the "Altmetric" button for Altmetric.com statistics, or the purple button directly below it for a Plum Analytics summary. See the following article as an example:
Cottrell, Elizabeth and Katherine A. Kelley. Redox heterogeneity in MORB as a function of mantle source.
Cottrell, Elizabeth and Katherine A. Kelley. Redox heterogeneity in MORB as a function of mantle source.
And, view a summary of URI's overall statistics from Plum Analytics: https://plu.mx/uri