Tracking Outputs

Our mission is to track the conversations surrounding all research outputs wherever they're happening online.    We actively tracking mentions related...

We aim to track attention to all research that exists online, e.g. across all publisher platforms, institutional repositories or data repositories. Fe...

In order to track online attention to a research output it needs to have at least one persistent scholarly identifier. Altmetric supports a range of i...

Altmetric collects certain meta tags from the source code of a research output webpage, in order to recognize the research output when it is mentioned...

When a research output is mentioned in a  source Altmetric tracks , such as a policy document, our system visits the research output landing page to m...

Altmetric tracks hundreds of institutional repositories, subject repositories, and preprint servers worldwide, including the following popular platfor...

For preprints hosted in repositories where more than one scholarly identifiers have been assigned, the preprint and the final published versions are t...

If you notice a sudden and consistent drop in Altmetric attention for your publications hosted on your journal website, it may be due to your platform...

URN stands for Uniform Resource Name and they are a unique identifier used primarily in European repositories.  This would be an example of a URN: urn...