DRAFT: Altmetrics: Plum Analytics

As another altmetric data provider, Plum Analytics: 

• Provides article-level altmetrics through databases and journal webpages
• Offers a subscription based impact dashboard for measuring research output
• Focuses on the following metrics:
  • Usage - clicks, downloads, views, etc.
  • Captures - bookmarks, favourites, readers, etc.
  • Mentions - blog posts, comments, news media, etc.
  • Social media - shares, likes, tweets, etc.
  • Citations - citation indexes, policy citations, clinical citations, etc.
     

Plum Analytics uses data from sources such as:

• Facebook, Twitter
• Amazon, Wikipedia
• GitHub, Mendeley
• Scopus, PubMed Central
• And many more!

Visit plumanalytics.com for a full list of PlumX data sources.

This video provides and introduction to PlumX Metrics. (YouTube video 01:02)

Plum Analytics uses the Plum Print to visualize altmetric data.

Plum Analytics deliberately does not aggregate their altmetric data sources into a single score.

Mousing over the Plum Print symbol reveals a pop-up box with more information on where the metrics for the article you're viewing came from. 

This is what Plum Print looks like in action:

Various databases and journal websites have integrated PlumX Metrics into their platforms to provide article-level altmetric data.

Some popular platforms that make use of PlumX Metrics include:

For more information on PlumX Metrics in Scopus, see the Finding Altmetric Data tab of this guide.

And also many open access journal websites!

Plum Analytics also provides institutional profiles using PlumX Metrics.

Institutional profiles let users access altmetric data at the subject, journal, school/program, and institute/centre levels.

This product is subscription-based; the University of Waterloo does not currently subscribe to this resource.
 

Example

The University of Pittsburgh's PlumX Implementation shows how Plum Analytics work at the institutional level.

The following screenshot shows PlumX Metrics in action for one of the documents in the University of Pittsburgh's collection. Citation, usage, captures, mentions, and social media counts are given at the top of the page, beside the article title, and broken down in detail throughout the rest of the page.