#altmetrics — Public Fediverse posts

Quelle place pour les #altmetrics dans l’#EvaluationDeLaRecherche ? Une revue de la littérature fait le point sur les connaissances actuelles :
- Comment permettent-ils de saisir plusieurs dimensions de l’impact d’une publication ?
- Quelles sont leurs limites ?
- Pourront-ils un jour remplacer les indicateurs bibliométriques historiques ?

➡️ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/research-metrics-and-analytics/articles/10.3389/frma.2025.1693304/full

Gave a short online lecture on altmetrics today. Main point: altmetrics measure attention, not quality. Sometimes they capture real interest - sometimes just noise. Attention ≠ impact.

👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30154.12488

#Altmetrics #ResearchImpact #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #Scientometrics

📣 Tomorrow plan to join us to learn how to gather citation metrics and explore altmetrics in Digital Science platforms (e.g. Dimensions, Symplectic Elements, Altmetric)

📊 We’ll cover searching for publications, people, and research organizations so that you can find key metrics (citation counts, FCR, news + policy mentions) and export data for visualization.

🔎 Learn more + register: https://iu.libcal.com/event/16052054

#researchmetrics #citationmetrics #altmetrics #IUIndy #libraries

📊 4 months in — encouraging #impact

My article on #DigitalInclusion & #UrbanAI has reached:

• 2,002 accesses
• 5 #citations
• 11
@altmetric.com
+ 1 public mention

🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-025-00116-9

#ResearchImpact #Altmetrics #AcademicPublishing #Metrics #DigitalInclusion #UrbanAI

Shout out to St Andy of Tattersall who had a cameo on our End of Year webinar slides @[email protected] #HaloEffect #AcademicSky #Altmetrics

12 Months That Changed A Year. The Altmetric Annual Review. Slightly mental. Tomorrow, 11am UK time. #Altmetrics #AcademicSky Sign up and be legends: www.altmetric.com/event/12-mon...

Your benefits of #altmetrics on ScienceOpen. 👇

• Combine citations, usage & alternative metrics for your article.
• See how your content is read, shared & discussed.
• Go beyond traditional impact factors and understand the true context of your publication.

#research #science

Even Elsevier's OWN metrics service (and our secret work crush) PlumX picked it up! #Altmetrics aren't just a bunch of "number go up" padding. It can be an early warning system for bad news. plu.mx/a/blog?doi=1...

PlumX

Full marks for the linking to research! And the podcast name. #Podcasts #Altmetrics

THREAD Sentiment Analysis Sentiment Analysis for social media is now fully live on Altmetric. From today you can see sentiment of all posts on Bluesky and X formerly Twitter. We categorised nearly 210m items. Here's why you should care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNip... #AcademicSky #Altmetrics

Introducing the Altmetric Sent...

"#X’s Altmetric Hegemony ‘Ending,’ With #Bluesky ‘Clear Alternative’ "
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/08/08/xs-altmetric-hegemony-ceding-bluesky

Primary source: "Are there stars in Bluesky? A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725000641#sec0003

Notable aside: "Findings suggest altmetric indicators now reflect a fragmented and politically influenced landscape of scholarly communication."

#Academia #Altmetrics #ScholComm #SocialMedia #Twitter
@academicchatter

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

Mentions of research on Bluesky cross 30,000 items for the first time. March 11th (yesterday): 31,444 posts citing research. All Time High #AcademicSky #HigherEd #IDSky #Altmetrics

"The Now-Defunct ResearchGate Score and the Extant Research Interest Score: A Continued Debate on Metrics of a Highly Popular Academic Social Networking Site" https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2024-0011 #altmetrics #citations #academicnetworks #socialwebmetrics

One of our five highest scoring papers in the last month! #Altmetrics

The effect of placement and management of intrathecal catheters following accidental dural puncture on the incidence of postdural puncture headache and severity: a retrospective real-world study

#anaesthesia #medicine #obstetrics #pain

https://buff.ly/3zHGaEH

One of our five highest scoring papers in the last month! #Altmetrics

Correspondence: Stylet vs. bougie for hyperangulated videolaryngoscopy: fragility, generalisability and the Cooper manoeuvre

#anaesthesia #medicine #airway

https://buff.ly/3QfUV6b

One of our five highest scoring papers in the last month! #Altmetrics

Correspondence: Time to treat the bleeding obstetric patient like the trauma patient and lower the dose of opioid

#anaesthesia #medicine #haematology

https://buff.ly/3XnnEdx

#Altmetrics https://buff.ly/3XnnEdx

Fwd: "A call for broadening the altmetrics tent to democratize science outreach" https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003010

"Furthermore, wider adoption of common protocols, such as ActivityPub in Fediverse, or of bridging services, such as Bridgy Fed, would allow greater visibility, communication and data sharing among media platforms." 1/

#fediverse #altmetrics @bsky.brid.gy

@egonw @dingemansemark Hidden gems is another term people have used. When I was on the PLOS article-level metrics team, I proposed using the PDF downloads to HTML views ratio to find articles that weren't necessarily the most highly viewed but were more deeply engaged with - the assumption being that downloading the PDF indicated greater interest from that reader.

https://everyone.plos.org/2014/12/23/let-count-ways-top-20-plos-one-articles-based-article-level-metrics-2014/
#Altmetrics #Bibliometrics

Seit Dezember berücksichtigt Altmetric auch Erwähnungen im neuen sozialen Netzwerk Bluesky. Nun gibt es einen ersten Kassensturz. #Altmetrics

https://www.altmetric.com/blog/a-first-look-at-altmetric-insights-from-bluesky/

New Preprint: “Are There Stars in #Bluesky? A Comparative Exploratory Analysis of #Altmetric Mentions Between X and Bluesky” https://www.infodocket.com/2024/12/14/research-paper-preprint-research-paper-preprint-are-there-stars-in-bluesky-a-comparative-exploratory-analysis-of-altmetric-mentions-between-x-and-bluesky/ #scholcomm #altmetrics #socialmedia #libraries #LIS

New study: "While #X currently dominates #altmetric mentions, the observed growth on #Bluesky suggests a potential shift in the future." arxiv.org/abs/2412.05624 #Altmetrics #Impact #ScholComm

Are there stars in Bluesky? A ...