Library Guides: Altmetrics: Alternative Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Research: Aggregators for altmetrics

Tracks altmetric data for institutions, publishers and researchers.
Requires an institutional subscription to view metrics by researcher name. MU does not currently subscribe.
Can view metrics for specific articles and books through Dimensions, IEEE xplore and selected publisher sites.
Top 100 list of the most shared and discussed academic research of the year according to Altmetric.com
Metrics to Use in Grant Applications (Altmetric.com blog entry November 2015)

Note: MU does not currently have a full subscription to Plum Analytics (Plum X) so there is no access to the research impact dashboard.

However, you can view Plum Analytics metrics for specific articles through the following database:

Your profile is created from data found in the following sources: Altmetric, BASE, Crossref, Mendeley, ORCID and Twitter.
You can keep track of how many times your work has been downloaded, bookmarked, and blogged through these sources.

A web-based service that helps researchers increase the visibility and impact of their publications.
Free for individual researchers.
Provides number of publication views, full-text downloads on publisher site, share referrals (i.e. the number of visits to your publication page that your sharing activities by email and online media have generated), and Kudos views (i.e. the total number of visits to your publication page on the Kudos site.

Free software designed to conduct automatic web analyses.
Analyzes the web impact of documents or web sites and creates network diagrams of collections of web sites.
Creates networks and time series analysis of social web sites (e.g., YouTube, Twitter) and some specialist web sites (e.g., Google Books, Mendeley).
For an overview, see Introduction to Webometric Analyst 2.0.