Altmetrics - Research impact and visibility - Oppaat | Guides at Tampere University Library

What is Altmetrics

Altmetrics (article level / alternative metrics) tracks research visibility in social media and other online platforms.

How much an article is viewed, liked, shared, downloaded, recommended or discussed online.
Altmetrics try to answer who is saying what about research.
An early immediate indicator of research's later impact, where bibliometrics is slow to accrue.
Provide information about different types of research impact like social, economic and cultural impact when bibliometrics (citations) may reflect only scientific impact.
You can download Bookmarklet Altmetric it! to see altmetric for specific article.

is an altmetrics service which tracks the online attention and activity to research and researchers
collects relevant mentions from social media sites, newspapers, policy documents, blogs, Wikipedia etc.
tracks scholarly identifiers like DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, Handle, arXiv ID, ADS ID, SSRN ID, RePEC ID, URN, ClinicalTrials.gov record, URL (custom service)
follows different sources, identifies such research outputs (journal articles, datasets etc.), which have identifiers attached to the output (DOI, PubMedID etc.) and collects mentions in the sources.

You can use Altmetric Explorer on the campus like other databases. For remote access log in with your tuni account via the Databases A-Z list.
If you want to save searches, you can create a user account.
Use your university email address when creating the account.

Altmetric Support -portal: find answers, fill a contact form etc.