Collecting Attention

Our mission is to track the conversations around research outputs online wherever they're happening. To that end we're constantly looking for new sour...

Altmetric started tracking attention to research across various attention sources in October 2011. The table below lists the dates when source coverag...

The table below describes the process for collecting data, update frequency and any additional details across all of Altmetric's tracked sources. Sour...

Altmetric currently tracks more than 16,000 blogs and 14,000 news sources and we are always looking for new sources and encourage anyone to submit a s...

Mentions are online posts (e.g. news articles, policy documents or blog posts) that reference a research output. To be considered as a mention, a post...

For Altmetric to be able to pick up a mention to a research output the source of this mention must be tracked by our system. Each source type has its ...

Missed mentions are mentions of research outputs across our tracked  attention sources  that match our tracking requirements and should have been auto...

When a research output is mentioned in an attention source tracked by Altmetric using a link shortening service, we expand the link in order to reveal...

In most cases, Altmetric links online attention to research outputs by searching for URLs or  unique identifiers  across  our tracked  attention sourc...

On the surface, Altmetric and traditional media monitoring tools seem to provide much the same service; the ability to track, collate and report on on...