About Altmetric

Altmetric is a system that tracks the attention that research outputs such as scholarly articles and data sets receive online. It pulls data from: Soc...

Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. They can include (but are not limited to) p...

Altmetric monitors a range of non-traditional sources , searching for links and references to published research. To track the online attention for a...

Altmetric uses a number of terms to describe our service and tools. This is a guide to some of those terms and how they are used: Altmetric Attention ...