Altmetric Explorer provides a powerful solution for academics, publishers, institutions, and corporations to understand the broader impact of their published research. It automates the laborious process of continuously monitoring online discussions and mentions, collating data from thousands of sources into a single, user-friendly platform. The technology tracks diverse online attention sources including policy documents, mainstream news outlets, social media, blogs, Wikipedia, and online reference managers. By precisely matching online attention to research items using unique identifiers and cross-checking multiple identifiers, Altmetric Explorer ensures highly accurate results. This allows users to easily grasp the value and influence of research on global communities. The platform supports browsing the entire database, tracking specific research outputs, or focusing on particular journals or institutions, with powerful search filters enabling precise data retrieval by keywords, DOIs, ISBNs, timeframes, and more.

Features & Benefits

• All Conversations in One Place
  • Collects relevant discussions around each piece of published research, tracking policy documents, mainstream news outlets, social media, blogs, Wikipedia, online reference managers, and more, making it all available in one centralized platform.
• Accurate Results
  • Designed to automatically recognize unique identifiers to precisely match online attention to research, cross-checking and matching multiple identifiers to collate them into one record of attention for all versions of a research item. Powerful search filters locate data by keyword, item, DOIs, ISBNs, timeframes, and other criteria.
• User-Friendly Interface
  • Visualizations for at-a-glance insight.
  • Breakdown and view the data as Highlights, Research Outputs, Timeline, Demographics, Mentions, and Journals.
  • Filters, such as SDG goals, GRID ID, and Subject, help to interpret, pinpoint, or broaden scope with ease.
• Interoperable Data
  • Integrates with existing systems via API, supporting popular SSO methods for ease of access for staff and students, and allowing direct import of data that matters from CRIS systems and repositories into the Altmetric Explorer.
• Shareable Reports
  • Enables the creation and export of shareable reports to evidence results or justify proposals. Data on any search term can also be exported via CSV or API for internal audits and reports.