Introducing PlumX from Plum Analytics
Clinical Citations Telling the Story of Clinical Impact
Clinical Citations Telling the Story of Clinical Impact | May 26 2016
* This video is 57 minutes.
How to Integrate Plum Analytics
PlumX Metrics and the artifact widget is free of charge to non-commercial open access journals and regional repositories, upon request and approval. The artifact widget is easy to embed and has several different styling options for your webpages. Take a look at a version of the widget in action here.
The widget is also available to data providers and platform partners. If you’re interested in using our widget and/or becoming a metric source, let us know!
Simply email us at support@plumanalytics.com for more information. Please provide your journal or platform name, URL, and contact information.
About Plum Analytics
PlumX is a subscription-based platform for tracking research impact. PlumX gathers and brings together appropriate metrics for all types of scholarly research output.
They categorize metrics into 5 separate types: Citations, Usage, Captures, Mentions, and Social Media.
- Citations – This is a category that contains both traditional citation indexes such as Scopus, as well as citations that help indicate societal impact such as Clinical or Policy Citations.
Examples: citation indexes, patent citations, clinical citations, policy citations Learn more
- Usage – A way to signal if anyone is reading the articles or otherwise using the research. Usage is the number one statistic researchers want to know after citations.
Examples: clicks, downloads, views, library holdings, video plays Learn more
- Captures – Indicates that someone wants to come back to the work. Captures can be an leading indicator of future citations.
Examples: bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers Learn more
- Mentions – Measurement of activities such as news articles or blog posts about research. Mentions is a way to tell that people are truly engaging with the research.
Examples: blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia references, news media Learn more
- Social media -This category includes the tweets, Facebook likes, etc. that reference the research. Social Media can help measure “buzz” and attention. Social media can also be a good measure of how well a particular piece of research has been promoted.
Examples: shares, likes, comments, tweets Learn more