📣 We're partnering with Wikipedia on a new course, "Wikipedia for Researchers: Building reliable knowledge through citations." Free, self-paced, open to all. Our own Carlos Areia (Senior Data Scientist) is an instructor! 🔗 Enroll today: https://ow.ly/WZFb50Z6xk0 Wikimedia Foundation, Altmetric

A very impartial perspective on #altmetrics, with its pros and cons, by the FT. Worth a read! (Free to read, no paywall) on.ft.com/47jwsq2

This is the first paper I've contributed to, and I couldn’t be happier! Thank you @careia.bsky.social, @herrison2000.bsky.social and @miguelgarcia.bsky.social! www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...

REQUEST What YouTube accounts should we add to our monitoring? We manually follow YouTube accounts in order to detect research linked in their description fields. So we don't follow everything, you see. Send us your suggestions! #AltmetricThis

Experience isn't always a good thing. For instance, I can't see this Portuguese Tax Authority website and not giggle. My assumption: the designer did a mockup in Balsamiq, sent it to the devs who implemented it blindly. The style is a mockup style, nothing like the website. But it's live 😅

How does @altmetric.com shape the future of #ResearchImpact in #MedicalAffairs? 🎙️ Steve Royle from My Medical Affairs recently sat down with Miguel Garcia, VP of Product at Altmetric, to discuss. @miguelgarcia.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more: www.altmetric.com/blog/beyond-... #MedAffairs

Did Portugal and Spain just forget to pay their electricity bill?!

THREAD Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg. From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying. 1/17

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

"Bluesky shows signs in LIS journals, indicating potential differences adoption in platform engagement across fields." arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05624

Want to know more about collecting Bluesky mentions on Altmetric? Here’s a Q&A that will hopefully shed some light on the topic.

The Altmetric account is on fire 🔥🔥🔥

research data bite into a recent case of forced citations researchmusings.substack.com/p/a-case-of-...

If a drug was prescribed to a patient, that would mean its underlying research was impactful in society, right? @altmetric.com can now see if it was recommended in Clinical Guidelines, which is a nice proxy. And: new colour in the Altmetric Badge! 🥳 #AcademicSky #MedSky Huge for #societal #impact