Demonstrate the impact of your research
Altmetric allows users to track and measure activity around academic research, pulling patterns and compelling stories from hundreds of thousands of online conversations each month.
Its strong focus on engineering and data science know-how makes collecting and analyzing the online conversation surrounding research outputs easy for researchers, institutions, publishers and funders alike.
Researchers
Download the free-to-use Altmetric Bookmarklet to instantly see the Altmetric data for any published paper.
Institutions
Monitor, search and report on conversations about research outputs published by people affiliated with your institution.
Publishers
Show authors & readers what others are saying about published articles or datasets, and analyze the attention your content is receiving.
The Altmetric Story
“When I was still in the lab and writing code, the way to get credit for new software was to have a short descriptive article about it published in the annual web services or database issue of a journal with a decent impact factor. That’s flawed – there are better ways of telling the story of research outputs than just pointing to them and the journal they’re published in.”
– Euan Adie, Altmetric Founder
Lots of people use Altmetric including
“Altmetric Explorer 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.”
– Ian Mulvany, eLife
Case studies
University College Dublin
Using Altmetric to help analyze and assess the effectiveness various communications channels open to researchers.
The Ecological Society of America
ESA implement Altmetric as part of a strategic initiative to alter the perception of their publishing brand.
