Altmetric is a part of the Digital Science group. Altmetric allows users to track and measure activity around academic research, pulling patterns and compelling stories from hundreds of thousands of online conversations each month. The Altmetric attention score is an article-level score, indicating the amount of online attention an article has received. Other tools from Altmetric include the Altmetric Explorer, used by Organisations around the world to track the impact of their research in almost real time. For more information please go to www.altmetric.com.

Where does the Altmetric information come from?

Altmetric track a unique range of online sources to capture the conversations relating to research outputs. These include public policy documents, mainstream media outlets, blogs, citations, online reference managers, wikipedia, social media, and more. For more information please go to www.altmetric.com.