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  • Great news! Altmetric now tracks mentions of research outputs in podcast episode descriptions. This major expansion significantly enhances your ability to measure impact by tracking attention from a manually curated collection of podcasts acr... more
  • We're thrilled to announce a powerful new enhancement to Altmetric Explorer: Search by Researcher!  You can now easily find specific researchers and analyze the aggregated attention metrics for all their associated research outputs.  ... more
  • Altmetric has launched a new Beta feature, Sentiment Analysis, which uses AI and a Large Language Model to interpret the opinions expressed in online mentions of research outputs.  Initially focusing on posts from X (formerly Twitter) and Blu... more
  • We've created new pages for guiding our users through a few steps to get started using Altmetric Explorer.    Find all our training videos here.   Or visit the following pages for specific training and guides about: Altmetric Explorer fo... more

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  • What is the Altmetric Attention Digest? The Altmetric Attention Digest is an AI-powered feature designed to move beyond simple attention metrics and provide users with a clear, concise, and narrative summary of a research output's attention ... more
  • Primo provides a free plugin that allows anyone with a Primo instance to add Altmetric institutional repository badges.  Once implemented these badges allow visitors to view the attention associated with a research output.  Accessin... more
  • Videos content tracking   Altmetric's curated list of YouTube channels are scanned for mentions of scholarly outputs.   Our YouTube collector ‘watches’ the list of channels for new posts (videos), and searches the description section for ... more
  • The Altmetric Attention Score for a book is calculated based on the weighted attention to the book and its chapters.  It's important to understand that the book's score is not a simple sum of the Altmetric scores for its individual ch... more
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS Do I need to pay for access? How should I acknowledge Altmetric for sharing its data? How should I describe Altmetric’s data in my research articles, presentations, etc? Can I share the portion of Altmetric data that I’v... more
  • Altmetric allows altmetrics researchers to use its data for free, for noncommercial research purposes.   We kindly ask that all researchers who study our data attribute Altmetric in their presentation or publication Acknowledgements section.... more
  • Altmetric is committed to helping others drive forward the field of altmetrics research through investigating our data. The Altmetric Scientometric Research Access to Data (SRAD) is an exclusive worldwide community for researchers who use Altmetr... more
  • What are the usage restrictions associated with Altmetric data? Altmetric data can be made free for scientometric researchers. Please contact us to apply for our Scientometric Research Access to Data (SRAD). Commercial projects must adhe... more
  • Altmetric Details Page API - Full Access includes the 'fetch' call which provides more detailed information about the mentions.    The ‘fetch’ calls allows users to see full details of the mentions, including the URLs to the mentions th... more
  • The Altmetric Details Page API - Counts Only provides information about individual research outputs. For example, you can query the Altmetric API by a DOI and retrieve the relevant Altmetric data.    The below table lists some of the fields tha... more