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We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
Find someone who gazes into your eyes the way @lukegeorge.bsky.social does when he presents at LIS 2025
#PerfectlyTimedPhotos
#PerfectlyTimedPhotos
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Find someone who gazes into your eyes the way @lukegeorge.bsky.social does when he presents at LIS 2025
#PerfectlyTimedPhotos
#PerfectlyTimedPhotos
@lukegeorge.bsky.social now up, talking about Taking Scientometrics Beyond the Library to Inform Research Strategy at LIS Bibliometrics 2025
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
@lukegeorge.bsky.social now up, talking about Taking Scientometrics Beyond the Library to Inform Research Strategy at LIS Bibliometrics 2025
The live-streaming is phenomenal, multi-angle, close-ups, slides mixed in with the speaker videos.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The live-streaming is phenomenal, multi-angle, close-ups, slides mixed in with the speaker videos.
We are at LIS Bibliometrics 2025 in Leicester today.
@mcintold.bsky.social is currently presenting on detecting fraud and impostors in the age of Open Science.
@mcintold.bsky.social is currently presenting on detecting fraud and impostors in the age of Open Science.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We are at LIS Bibliometrics 2025 in Leicester today.
@mcintold.bsky.social is currently presenting on detecting fraud and impostors in the age of Open Science.
@mcintold.bsky.social is currently presenting on detecting fraud and impostors in the age of Open Science.
We track this podcast. The mention might have been missed so I’ll check it out!
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We track this podcast. The mention might have been missed so I’ll check it out!
The opening paragraph of her tribute, dedicated to praising the research scientist and their role in continually attempting to dispel us from the demon-haunted world of irrationality and "a world of shifting illusions and delusions" is prescient. COVID would come only months after this was published
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The opening paragraph of her tribute, dedicated to praising the research scientist and their role in continually attempting to dispel us from the demon-haunted world of irrationality and "a world of shifting illusions and delusions" is prescient. COVID would come only months after this was published
Oates observes a lack of nature photos within the Twitter owner's posting history; her own obituary for Gross is filled with beautiful shots that her husband took of nature as they travelled across the world in the decade leading up to his death in 2019.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Oates observes a lack of nature photos within the Twitter owner's posting history; her own obituary for Gross is filled with beautiful shots that her husband took of nature as they travelled across the world in the decade leading up to his death in 2019.
Update: coming through loud and clear!
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Update: coming through loud and clear!
After all the joking about how we will soon be tracking Myspace, Bebo and Digg, it looks like....we might one day track Digg again?
Anyone know what this beta is?
Anyone know what this beta is?
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
After all the joking about how we will soon be tracking Myspace, Bebo and Digg, it looks like....we might one day track Digg again?
Anyone know what this beta is?
Anyone know what this beta is?
Almost all of the tweets are retweets from the author sharing the paper. Even for Twitter, very little organic spread of that paper.
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Almost all of the tweets are retweets from the author sharing the paper. Even for Twitter, very little organic spread of that paper.
2. Direcció General de Planificació en Salut
Otherwise known as the General Directorate for Health Planning, this is a Catalonian agency. They cite research over 1,500 times. Boffins. Citation no longer needed!
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Otherwise known as the General Directorate for Health Planning, this is a Catalonian agency. They cite research over 1,500 times. Boffins. Citation no longer needed!
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November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
2. Direcció General de Planificació en Salut
Otherwise known as the General Directorate for Health Planning, this is a Catalonian agency. They cite research over 1,500 times. Boffins. Citation no longer needed!
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Otherwise known as the General Directorate for Health Planning, this is a Catalonian agency. They cite research over 1,500 times. Boffins. Citation no longer needed!
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1. ACT Government
Much like DC in the US, Australia's Capital Territory (Canberra) is its own thing. ACT policy cites works that are not cited anywhere else regularly, e.g. this book, mentioned in a policy doc on vegetation and habitat:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=orF...
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Much like DC in the US, Australia's Capital Territory (Canberra) is its own thing. ACT policy cites works that are not cited anywhere else regularly, e.g. this book, mentioned in a policy doc on vegetation and habitat:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=orF...
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![Technical Report 22 - Survey of Vegetation and Habitat in Key Riparian Zones: Murrumbidgee River, ACT 2009 [30.7 MB]
Policy document published by ACT Government
Cites the following from your search query:
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Survey of Vegetation and Habitat in Key Riparian Zones
Book, January 2009](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lf4a2b6djtuv5l3lz7ffsyv4/bafkreih7vs46kg3wkhgeex5og2fbgt6muv47bjuyuyo7wq33lv3bxsw3du@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
1. ACT Government
Much like DC in the US, Australia's Capital Territory (Canberra) is its own thing. ACT policy cites works that are not cited anywhere else regularly, e.g. this book, mentioned in a policy doc on vegetation and habitat:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=orF...
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Much like DC in the US, Australia's Capital Territory (Canberra) is its own thing. ACT policy cites works that are not cited anywhere else regularly, e.g. this book, mentioned in a policy doc on vegetation and habitat:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=orF...
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10 years. Over 7,000 citations.
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
10 years. Over 7,000 citations.
Here's another datapoint for you. For research that has been published in 2025 (so from Jan 1 to now), Bluesky is consistently at 50-70% of Twitter's volume, despite being drastically smaller and more recently established. Sept 30th they were almost identical. 2,000 posts difference between them.
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Here's another datapoint for you. For research that has been published in 2025 (so from Jan 1 to now), Bluesky is consistently at 50-70% of Twitter's volume, despite being drastically smaller and more recently established. Sept 30th they were almost identical. 2,000 posts difference between them.
Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Another way items without attention come to us is via our customers.
When an institution uses our Explorer, we connect their repository, Research Info System or even a spreadsheet to our service. We take a 1-for1 copy of their records, regardless of whether they have attention yet.
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When an institution uses our Explorer, we connect their repository, Research Info System or even a spreadsheet to our service. We take a 1-for1 copy of their records, regardless of whether they have attention yet.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Another way items without attention come to us is via our customers.
When an institution uses our Explorer, we connect their repository, Research Info System or even a spreadsheet to our service. We take a 1-for1 copy of their records, regardless of whether they have attention yet.
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When an institution uses our Explorer, we connect their repository, Research Info System or even a spreadsheet to our service. We take a 1-for1 copy of their records, regardless of whether they have attention yet.
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We track research items for which we have found attention across various places on the web. We only learn of articles, datasets or whatever else you gave a DOI to when they get shared or mentioned for the first time. We've found 29m items that have attention. But we "know" of 49m.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We track research items for which we have found attention across various places on the web. We only learn of articles, datasets or whatever else you gave a DOI to when they get shared or mentioned for the first time. We've found 29m items that have attention. But we "know" of 49m.
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
The Altmetric Ghost Donut
Yes this is a real thing, not something we cattle-prodded our marketing into making for us. They are a rare sight, but you might have come across them.
Here's a thread dedicated just to them.
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The Altmetric Ghost Donut
Yes this is a real thing, not something we cattle-prodded our marketing into making for us. They are a rare sight, but you might have come across them.
Here's a thread dedicated just to them.
1/7
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
The Altmetric Ghost Donut
Yes this is a real thing, not something we cattle-prodded our marketing into making for us. They are a rare sight, but you might have come across them.
Here's a thread dedicated just to them.
1/7
The Altmetric Ghost Donut
Yes this is a real thing, not something we cattle-prodded our marketing into making for us. They are a rare sight, but you might have come across them.
Here's a thread dedicated just to them.
1/7
Pretty cool seeing datasets being cited on podcasts, not just articles! This dataset had no other attention so far, so it gets its first details page today.
www.altmetric.com/details/1825...
www.altmetric.com/details/1825...
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Pretty cool seeing datasets being cited on podcasts, not just articles! This dataset had no other attention so far, so it gets its first details page today.
www.altmetric.com/details/1825...
www.altmetric.com/details/1825...
There are 36,000 or so podcasts that explicitly link to research in some of their episode descriptions. That's how we find the research citations btw, exactly how we also do it with YouTube.
Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
There are 36,000 or so podcasts that explicitly link to research in some of their episode descriptions. That's how we find the research citations btw, exactly how we also do it with YouTube.
Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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Podcast episodes have been one of the top requests for tracking we've received along with Bluesky, sentiment analysis and for this account to calm down and post sensibly (two out of three ain't bad.)
Here are the numbers on podcast attention to research and how it works.
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Here are the numbers on podcast attention to research and how it works.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Podcast episodes have been one of the top requests for tracking we've received along with Bluesky, sentiment analysis and for this account to calm down and post sensibly (two out of three ain't bad.)
Here are the numbers on podcast attention to research and how it works.
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Here are the numbers on podcast attention to research and how it works.
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PODCASTS
Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
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Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
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October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
PODCASTS
Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
1/7
Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research
In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.
Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.
Let's go
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October 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There are 36,000 or so podcasts that explicitly link to research in some of their episode descriptions. That's how we find the research citations btw, exactly how we also do it with YouTube.
Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
3/7
October 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
There are 36,000 or so podcasts that explicitly link to research in some of their episode descriptions. That's how we find the research citations btw, exactly how we also do it with YouTube.
Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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Podcasters: Link to the research in your episode descriptions!
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