Are you interested in learning how your journal articles and datasets are being discussed online? NIH researchers and staff can now request customized Altmetric reports that show the amount of attention their research is getting in social media, news, blogs, policies, patents, and other sources. This information can be used by itself to see how the research is being received and interacted with around the world as soon as it is published. Altmetric reports can also be used in conjunction with traditional citation analyses to provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the research’s impact.
Get Started
Submit a request for an Altmetric report. NIH Librarians will use Altmetric Explorer, a database from Digital Science, to analyze your scholarly publications and create a report including:
- Total number of mentions in news, blogs, policy, patents, Twitter, peer review sources, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google+, Reddit, Faculty Opinions, Q&A, and videos
- Publications with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores
- A chart displaying number of mentions over time
Additional Altmetric data can be requested in a report, including scores for all publications in the search list, details on number of mentions over time, country-based demographics of social media/news/policy mentions, a list of all mentions, details on sources of mentions, and mentions for each journal where target articles were published. Altmetric data can also be requested as part of a larger citation analysis from the NIH Library Bibliometric Service.
More Information
Learn more about this resource: Altmetric for Researchers.
Contact Joelle Mornini, joelle.mornini@nih.gov, with questions about Altmetric reports, to see sample reports, or to request other bibliometric services from the NIH Library.