Altmetric at Dundee: Who's talking about your research?

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This is a quick guided walk through of the Altmetric Explorer for institutions platform.

To get started log in with your credentials at altmetric explorer.com. If you do not already have an account, please email support at altmetric.com to get set up.

Once you're logged into the platform the Explorer presents a top-level snapshot of the highlights related to research attention from your university or organization.

At the top we see total mentions across the outputs currently being tracked, an attention breakdown is provided which includes percentages of different source categories across the outputs at your institution.

We also will present your top attention receiving outputs, the sources of most mention, where your research outputs have been published and a quick access to the latest news highlight so you can stay on top of really valuable high profile attention.

We also give you information about your most recent mentions across your institutional data, a regional and country demographic snapshot and finally a distribution of Altmetric attention scores across your research outputs or whatever search set you're viewing. Each of these sections can be gone into via the hyperlinks at the bottom for more granular analysis.

We can look at our institutional dashboard with this icon on the left toolbar. This data is populated via your institution's publication management system, so we snapshot this regularly and set up a departmental hierarchy based upon verified information coming from your organization. We can view subsets of data by clicking on view results for any of these departments or author lists.

Now we are looking at the research outputs related to our search, the white bar at the top will always tell us what data set we are viewing.

We can gain a lot of insights quickly by sorting, for example maybe we're interested in viewing the publications with the most policy references.

Now we've resorted my results to bring those with the most policy mentions to the top. We can also do this for citation data so we can look at complementary metrics alongside of each other.

Here we can see my publications from my institution resorted to bring those with the most citations to the front. Each output can be analyzed on an individual level at the details page.

We can see demographics related to Twitter, Mendeley readership, the attention score in context that will provide us a relative snapshot of where this publication sits with respect to other publications from the same journal and of a similar age.

We can also audit all of the mentions for each individual source for example these policy mentions. All details pages are public facing.

Citation data can be analyzed further via the dimensions publication citation record. Aggregate information can be exported as a CSV or open directly as an API.

To set up alerts and build reports we save our searches. When we go into our saved search dashboard this allows us to get weekly, monthly, and/or daily reminders about searches that were interested in.

Here I can select to receive an HTML embedded email or I can build a custom shareable report that can be saved as a PDF or a live updating URL.

To conduct further analysis we can continue along each tab at the top of our screen. The timeline tab will allow us to see an interactive longitudinal view of research attention related to the outputs in our search.

We can adjust our Timeline view with the toolbar and scrolling at the bottom. We can also select specific sources of attention if we want to analyze only those of value for our purposes and we can click through the map to analyze the mentions information in more detail so now we are looking at all news stories, blogs and patent data related to a specific week of attention.

If we want to reset the terms of our mention search we can do so here and we can opt to select the source categories that are of most value to us.

We can also add sources specifically by name such as news outlets or Twitter handles. Data from the mentions tab can also be exported as a CSV or open to directly by the API.

These searches can also be saved so we can track specific mentions data for example maybe we were interested in specific mentions coming from a set of countries. We can add various criteria to customize our searches.

If we want to go through demographics data via distribution maps the demographics tab offers us rich information regarding Twitter, Facebook, news, and policy mentions across our search set.

This data can be analyzed, exported or interacted with via the overlay map. By clicking on the map I've now taken myself to the mentions tab where I am seeing all news stories from Nigeria.

Finally journal level data is available in the journals tab now I can see where the publications from my search set have been published and the attention patterns across various journals.

This data also can be exported as a CSV or open to directly by a big JSON API endpoint. To customize searches further click on edit search and here we can switch to toggle to the full altmetric database if we wanted to do a topic related search say including a keyword to search across titles and maybe we also wanted to limit our search in terms of publication date range.

Now my search is going to be adjusted and each tab will offer analysis based on the new search that I have looked at.

Additional advanced search options include searching by publisher, batches of ISSNs up to 25,000 to do large journal searches. We can also limit our search to say just look at scholarly articles or datasets books etc and we can also do searches and mass with scholarly identifiers' by pasting a list of up to 25,000 DOIs, ISBNs, PubMed IDs etc into this field.

Individuals can search by their orchid ID to pull up publication information that way.

Even more advanced search options are available via the PubMed query feature which allows you to use advanced PubMed query syntax to scrape for any PubMed index publications in the Altmetric database. 

This has been  a brief guided walk through of the Altmetric explore for institutions platform. Please reach out to support at altmetric.com with any questions, thanks so much.