Monthly Milestones: Altmetric – Capturing Thousands of Mentions

Over the next few months we will be sharing some monthly milestones from across our business and portfolio companies. Follow online using #DSmilestones.

In the first of the series, we have some key milestones from team Altmetric in the form of an infographic.

The infographic gives an overview of the amount and type of attention Altmetric have tracked to a wide range of research outputs to date, and gives a good indication of just how many conversations about scholarly work are now taking place online.

Catherine Williams of Altmetric adds:

“The Altmetric database has grown hugely in the last year, and we’ve now tracked almost 30 million mentions to around 5 million unique research outputs. Datasets, Clinical Trials and scholarly content from online platforms such as The Conversation make up an increasing proportion of those mentioned outputs.”