The personal information we use in the Altmetric products broadly falls into three categories:

  • Information about users of the Altmetric products (including Altmetric Explorer, Altmetric Badges, Altmetric API, and Altmetric Bookmarklet)

  • Information about authors of research outputs tracked by Altmetric (e.g.,  journal articles, books, book chapters, datasets, and other content)

  • Information about creators or authors of mentions, for research outputs tracked by Altmetric (e.g., social media, news, policy, blog, and patent mentions)


How we use the personal data we collect varies depending on the Altmetric product. Please see the table below for a detailed breakdown:


Type of personal information

Processed

internally by

Altmetric

Altmetric.com 

Altmetric

Explorer

Free

Altmetric

API

Commercial

Altmetric

API

Altmetric

Badges

& Details

Pages

Researcher

Data Access

Programme

Author names

on research outputs

✓


✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Usernames in mentions from

X, Facebook, Reddit,

Stack Exchange, Wikipedia,

Sina Weibo, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest,

YouTube, Publons,

and PubPeer

✓


✓


✓

✓

✓

Author names from news,

patent & policy mentions

✓







Other personally-identifiable

data in mentions text/bodies

✓


✓


✓

✓

✓

User e-mail addresses

✓


✓





Automatically collected

usage and other technical

information, such as IPs

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Names & departmental

affiliations of authors that

belong to your institution

(this is provided to us by

your institution)

✓


✓