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Altmetric News and Updates

  • Altmetric Top 100 - 2020 is live
    Check the full Altmetric Top 100 here. From Covid-19 to engineering the perfect espresso, controversial, important, and unusual research and scholarly editorials from across the sciences, arts, and humanities feature in this year's Altme... more
  • The state of altmetrics: a tenth anniversary celebration
    In honor of the ten year anniversary of the publication of the Altmetrics Manifesto, Altmetric has published a landmark report, “The State of Altmetrics”. The state of altmetrics explores a decade of innovation and growth, featuring contribution... more
  • Explorer Training Sites
    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 f... more
  • Altmetric System Status
    Check the System Status for each of the Altmetric Products here

Popular Solution articles

  • Using Altmetric data for altmetrics research
    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
  • FAQ: Why isn’t my article included in the Altmetric Top 100?
    We understand that it is disappointing to not see the research you’ve worked so hard on not appear in our Top 100. We use a combination of automated and manual checks to determine the Top 100 research outputs of the year. Research considered out ... more
  • Altmetric Top 100 - 2020 is live
    Check the full Altmetric Top 100 here. From Covid-19 to engineering the perfect espresso, controversial, important, and unusual research and scholarly editorials from across the sciences, arts, and humanities feature in this year's Altme... more
  • CSV Uploader Tool : Preparing the data
    The CSV Uploader Tool for Altmetric Explorer for Institutions (EFI) is used to quickly update the data implementation for your organization’s Explorer instance. You will be able to use the CSV Uploader Tool to update the department or group hiera... more
  • The state of altmetrics: a tenth anniversary celebration
    In honor of the ten year anniversary of the publication of the Altmetrics Manifesto, Altmetric has published a landmark report, “The State of Altmetrics”. The state of altmetrics explores a decade of innovation and growth, featuring contribution... more
  • Altmetric Explorer - introduction videos
    Do you need an introduction to Altmetric Explorer, but don't have time to attend one of our monthly webinars? This 10 minute video provides you with a quick introduction. Explorer for Institutions Explorer for Publishers
  • Resources for altmetrics research
    General resources Questions about Altmetric’s data collection practices, sources, etc: We describe most of our data collection practices and sources here in the Altmetric Support portal and the Altmetric Details Page API documentation. In t... more
  • Adding badges to an Institutional Repository
    What are Institutional Repository badges?    Repository badges are an easy way of displaying an article's attention to both your researchers and external visitors to your repository. These badges are customisable, so they can be tailored t... more
  • LibGuides and resources for Librarians
    You can download our Ultimate Guide to Altmetric for Librarians here.   This guide is an archived copy of the content shared on Impactstory's "Ultimate Guide to Altmetrics (for librarians)" from 2015. Everything in this LibGuide ... more
  • Introduction to the Bookmarklet
    The Altmetric Bookmarklet is a free browser tool for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that lets you easily find out how much attention that recent papers have received online.    Click the Bookmarklet’s “Altmetric It!” button, all of the altmetrics ... more