Altmetric
It collects various data on the online use of a research document and summarises them in a single indicator called the Altmetric Attention Score.
It offers free tools that provide all the aforementioned data.
PlumX Metrics
It provides information on online activity surrounding articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and other research outputs. It offers five different metrics.
Current calls for accreditation and research evaluation, aligned with the Open Science principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the International Coalition for the Advancement of Research Assessment (CoARA), focus on aspects that have previously been overlooked and cannot be adequately measured by traditional bibliometric indicators. In addition to evaluating scientific impact, these initiatives place emphasis on assessing the social impact of research and the adoption of Open Science practices.
One approach to demonstrating the social impact of research is through the use of altmetrics.
The UAB resources that track research output provide a range of statistics, including both traditional and altmetric metrics:
Altmetrics in DDD
The UAB repository records have various statistics:
- their use within the repository (visits and downloads).
- citations received according to Scopus, Web of Science and Google Academic, and Altmetric Attention Score. If we hover the mouse over the latter data, it will show us more information and will allow us to link to the Almetrics database to see all the details related to the document. Example.
On the Research Portal and EGRETA
In EGRETA, you can consult the corresponding metrics in Scopus, PlumX and Web of Science for each document. To see them, once in the document record, you only need to go to the ‘Metrics’ section that you will find in the left column of the window, just below ‘Metadata’.
In the Research Portal you will find the same information (Scopus and PlumX) plus Altmetric. Clicking on the graphical representations of the aggregators of the alternative metrics will take you to the pages with the detailed information. The number of citations according to Scopus is also a link that will allow us to reach the documents that have cited ours.
There are many sources we can use to demonstrate the impact of research: press databases (Factiva or My News) to find out if the media have talked about the research; WorldCat to find out if a book can be found in libraries all over the world; Overton to find out if citations in policy documents...
You can find more information on sources for indicators in the Sources section of the Support for Research Accreditation and Assessment website.
