Tracking altmetrics
Altmetric tracking services were developed due to the time it takes to collect and collate relevant and useful data.
Altmetrics tracking services
Altmetric.com offers both free and subscription based tools for publishers, institutions and researchers interested in tracking and viewing engagement with their research outputs.
The Altmetric.com donut provides an Altmetric Attention Score for a research output they have tracked, "the score is a weighted count of the different sources that mention a particular output. News articles are given greater weight than blog posts, which have greater weight than Twitter or other social media posts, reflecting the relative value of those various sources".
The Altmetric database provides more detailed analysis and benchmarking for researchers.
PlumX Metrics have defined their altmetrics into 5 categories:
The Plum Print is a visualisation of the altmetrics for a particular output or what Plum refers to as an Artifact.