Sources of Attention

Altmetric tracks Bluesky at tention in real-time via an API. W e automatically collect posts, reposts, and quoted posts that contain a direct link to ...

Altmetric tracks public Facebook Pages only, meaning that there are a lot of Facebook pages that we cannot track such as personal profiles, private ac...

Altmetric tracks Reddit attention via their API and the data is updated on a daily basis. We track all subreddits but we cannot track comments or post...

Altmetric tracks X attention in real-time via an API. We automatically collect posts (previously tweets), reposts, and quotes that contain a direct li...

Altmetric's curated list of YouTube channels are scanned for mentions of scholarly outputs. Our YouTube collector ‘watches’ the list of channels for n...

Altmetric tracks attention to research outputs across a curated list of blogs. We automatically search each blog for references (specifically links) t...

Altmetric's manually curated collection of news sources captures mentions in real-time, as long as the posts contain a direct link to a research outpu...

Altmetric tracks mentions of research outputs from the written descriptions of podcast episodes. For a mention to be picked up, it must meet the follo...

Altmetric tracks Wikipedia references in certain languages (full list here ) using the Wikipedia Events API. Mentions to research are identified when...

Clinical guidelines are documents that offer recommendations for clinicians and healthcare practitioners on how to manage and treat specific medical c...

Patents are a form of intellectual property, and are a set of exclusive rights granted by a state or intergovernmental organisation to an inventor or ...

Altmetric curates policy sources that are designed to change or otherwise influence guidelines, policy or practice.  Tracked policy sources and docume...

Altmetric ingest citation data from Dimensions on a daily basis. Citations appear in both Altmetric Details Pages and in the Altmetric Explorer.    Di...

Altmetric receives mentions from H1, previously known as Faculty Opinions on a daily basis through an XML feed. If an output is recommended by a membe...

Altmetric tracks  Mendeley  readership by retrieving a total number of Mendeley readers for any publications that have been updated in the past day, d...

Altmetric receives a feed from StackExchange daily and uses link matching to associate mentions with publications. We look for links in forum posts on...

Altmetric partnered with  The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) , who have provided us with a database containing mention counts from over 1 million course ...

Clarivate Analytics Web of Science™  citation data is available in the Altmetric Explorer for Web of Science subscribers.  If you are a Web of Science...