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Altmetric News and Updates

  • New Explorer Filter: Type of Open Access
    The Open Access filter allows users to understand the influence Open Access has on online attention and how research outputs have been discussed online. The Altmetric Explorer, Explorer API and CSV spreadsheet exports retrieve all Open Access... 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • Bookmarklet FAQs
    Below you will find the FAQs and troubleshooting for the Bookmarklet. FAQs What does it mean if the bookmarklet doesn't support a journal? The bookmarklet says that it can't find a DOI on the page but I can see it right there und... more
  • Publisher training and promotional materials
    We've created a collection of training and promotional materials you can use to spread the word about Altmetric tools at your organisation!   Explorer for Publishers Explorer for Publishers User Guide How to Save Searches, Create Ale... more
  • Usage restrictions associated with Altmetric API
    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 Researcher Data Access Program. Commercial projects must adhere to third pa... more
  • Required metadata for content tracking
    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 or shared in one of the attention sources we track.    When a research output is mentioned in... more
  • Introduction to the Details Page API
    What is the Altmetric Details Page API?   The Altmetric Details Page API is the API that powers the Altmetric details pages and the Altmetric badges. The Details Page API allows users to see the information from the Details Pages and the badges... more
  • Using the Details Page API - Full Access
    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 ... more
  • Wikipedia
    What mentions does Altmetric track?   Altmetric tracks Wikipedia references on the English, Spanish, Finnish, and Swedish Wikipedias using the Wikipedia Events API. Mentions to research are identified when they are: In the "References&q... more
  • How is the Altmetric Attention Score calculated?
    While the most important part of an Altmetric report is the qualitative data, it's also useful to put attention in context and see how some research outputs are doing relative to others. The Altmetric Attention Score for a research outpu... more
  • Difference between the Explorer API and the Details Page API
    While both of the Altmetric APIs display Altmetric attention data and research output metadata, the Altmetric Explorer API and the Altmetric Details Page API are optimized for different functions.    The Explorer API is optimized for exporting ... more