Tracking Your Scholarly Research Impact

Altmetrics (alternative metrics) capture mentions of your scholarly article outside the scholarly literature and provide a snapshot of your impact beyond traditional citation metrics.

They can include a wide variety of sources where your journal article is being discussed and used, such as:

• Public policy documents
• Discussions on research blogs
• Mainstream media
• Bookmarks on Reference Managers, such as Mendeley
• Mentions on social networks such as Twitter

Tools for Social Networking Site Readership (mentions in social networks, blogs, and media):

• Mendeley Readers - Mendeley is not just a citation management software.
  • Researchers can create profiles and build and share their libraries of citations.
  • Mendeley tracks how often citations are saved to libraries as a type of altmetric and can be used as a source of early scholarly impact information.
• ResearchGate - Social network for research enabling sharing of scholarship, collaboration, and some altmetrics.
• Academia.edu - Network for researchers to share research and discover research being done by others

Tools for Altmetrics (NOTE: all these tools are subscription-based):

• PlumX Analytics
• Scopus Altmetrics
• PLOS
• Altmetric Explorer for Institutions