The Altmetric Top 100 2017 is here! Check out this year’s list of the most talked about articles. http://altmetric.com/top100 

What are Altmetrics?

• Attention to research outputs in non-traditional sources, e.g. policy documents, news, blogs and social media
• Indicators of research impact
• Help understand how research is being received and used
• Complementary to traditional citation-based analysis

Why Altmetrics?

• Provide a more coherent understanding of research attention
• Understand the broader reach and early impact of research
• Track attention to a broad range of research outputs, including articles, posters, data sets and working papers, etc.
• Help researchers get credit for impact activities

Advantages of Metrics for Single Research Outputs

1. Real-time, immediate feedback on attention to scholarly content
2. Useful for early career researchers whose work may not have accrued citations
3. Showcase attention to a research output beyond academia
4. Not biased by an over-arching metric

The Altmetric Bookmarklet

The free Bookmarklet lets you instantly retrieve altmetrics data for any article.

To install, go to: http://altmetric.it

Remember that the Numbers Don’t Tell You…

1. Quality of the paper
2. Quality of the researchers
3. Whole story

Adapted from https://www.altmetric.com/