Track online engagement and research impact

Trusted by leading research organizations around the world

Your influence. Tracked. Explained. Analyzed.

Altmetric captures and analyzes online mentions of research from sources such as news, blogs, policy documents, social media, and patents. With real-time tracking, intuitive dashboards, and meaningful visualizations, you can measure the broader impact of your work beyond traditional citations.

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Altmetric has the potential to change the way we understand the impact that research has within academia and more importantly the wider impact that it has in society.”
Sage Publications

Key features

Attention tracking

Attention score and badge

Powerful benchmarking

Dashboards and reports

Reveal online attention to research

  • Track research engagement as it happens.
  • Identify key influencers and emerging trends in your field.
  • Generate shareable reports to demonstrate impact to stakeholders.

Showcase real-world impact

  • See how research influences policy, public discourse, and academic collaboration.
  • Complement traditional bibliometrics with online attention insights.
  • Strengthen funding applications and institutional reputation management.

1st

online attention tracker to include Bluesky as an attention source.

31

different language versions of Wikipedia tracked.

9,000+

academic and other blogs scanned and curated every day.

256m+

mentions of over 24 million research outputs in the Altmetric database (and it’s constantly growing).

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Altmetric allows us to quickly and easily see where Cambridge research is being applied in practice.”
University of Cambridge

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