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.
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Yeah they really shouldn’t be used as “measures”. Our data should be used to discover how research has had an outcome/impact beyond academia.
This is more narrative-driven than sheer numbers. And a high attention score isn’t a “good score”. Just ask the author of many a retracted paper!
One month after Nature publication: 83k reads, 99th percentile across all journals according to Altmetric. Nine spatial ecotypes from cfDNA methylomes predict ICI response across tumor types — the science behind LiquidCellDx's LiquidTME. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Introducing the new Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities
NC State chemistsbuilt a tough solar molecule from scratch, a major breakthrough for future tech.
🙌 The paper "Synthesis of bacteriochlorophyll a" currently has an Altmetric score of 47, placing it in the top 5% of all tracked research outputs in terms of attention.
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@ncstate.bsky.social
Towards a more informed and balanced use of scientific performance metrics.
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Altmetric, Wikimedia Foundation
Combined follower counts reached:
1 million X The Everything App accounts
5 million Bluesky accounts
From today you can search for organisations in Altmetric by multilingual names, abbreviations, see autocomplete type-ahead, and see parent and child organisation relationships.
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Forget the Stanley Cup finals, this is the hockey stick that matters most: the @altmetric.com graph of attention over time for an editorial in Diabetes Care that suddenly became the center of attention Friday. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
(Data as of early June 6)
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Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
doi.org
Multimodal machine learning reveals that tumour microenvironments can be decomposed into spatially organized multicellular ecosystems, termed spatial ecotypes, that can be accessed non-invasively via ...
We've replaced the legacy GRID classification with the latest version of Dimensions' organization database, and included parent-child relationships in search results.
@chemistryworld.com has highlighted the recent Chemical Science paper by Jonathan Lindsey et al. "Synthesis of bacteriochlorophyll a". This was a recent inside front cover of @chemicalscience.rsc.org!
Read the original paper here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
By the way, as I said in the post, I do wonder why we as a community accept citations and altmetrics as reliable measures of impact when neither is backed by a standard!
Two days later. @altmetric.com score nearly doubled. Upper bound reach around 5 mil BlueSky accounts and 1 mil Twitter accounts.
Again if you’d like to read the editorial is is available here:
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
