A new partnership between Plum Analytics, an EBSCO company, and ACI Information Group will give PlumX Suite users access to metrics collected from the world's only scholarly blog service. Scholarly blogs are increasingly part of the public discourse around research, and this partnership will allow researchers, librarians and funding organizations to see who is interacting with a piece of research and what they are saying in ACI's collection of more than one million scholarly blog posts.
The partnership with ACI, the world's leading aggregator of editorially selected and curated social media and blog publications, will showcase the importance of blogs in scholarly communications and reveal the alternative metrics of engagement, exposure and reach of bloggers. The PlumX Suite will be able to track more than 10,000 news and commentary blogs covering a variety of disciplines through its altmetrics category, Mentions. The ACI sources are adding to a curated list of more than 4,000 blogs that the PlumX Suite currently mines for mentions of research output.
Blog mentions are one of nine types of Mentions that are monitored in the PlumX Suite, joining resources such as comments on YouTube, reviews on Amazon and Wikipedia links. In addition to Mentions, there are four other categories of metrics — Usage, Captures, Social Media and Citations — that help research professionals tell the story of research.
PlumX is the definitive source of altmetrics data that is continually adding content sources to provide unrivaled depth and breadth of coverage. The ACI partnership is the latest expansion of PlumX altmetrics offerings, including tracking public and private Facebook conversations and usage data from Airiti e-Journals database from China and Taiwan. Plum Analytics also recently announced an agreement to build a joint Big Data Lab in China.
According to Andrea Michalek, Plum Analytics Co-Founder and President, the agreement continues the company's commitment to providing altmetrics from all places that research information appears.
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