STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services, a global information services company providing research and discovery platforms and access to premium content. The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics' altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions.
Plum Analytics was founded in early 2012 and is a pioneer in 'altmetrics', helping tell the story of research and researchers by revealing interest and usage beyond traditional measures. It gathers metrics about research from dozens of scholarly sources, media channels and social media, providing a timely, broad and complete measurement of scholarly impact.
Plum Analytics' metrics will be incorporated into Elsevier's world leading research products - Mendeley, Scopus, ScienceDirect, SciVal and Pure, as well as Elsevier's leading journal and society partner sites. Combined with Elsevier's recently announced CiteScore metrics, the research community now has even more ways to evaluate research performance.
Plum Analytics' altmetrics will remain available to institutions and will be integrated into Elsevier's institutional research products SciVal and Pure. Its powerful altmetrics will enable Elsevier to improve measurement for research institutions, by helping them better understand researcher and institutional performance impact through a broader basket of metrics. Over 60 million articles from Scopus, 13 million from ScienceDirect and articles hosted on Mendeley, will be analyzed on Plum Analytics as a result of this integration.
Individual researchers who use Mendeley, a free social collaboration network, will benefit as their profiles will be enhanced with Plum Analytics' altmetrics. Previously Plum Analytics' metrics were only available to institutional subscribers.
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