Altmetric has announced that support for Altmetric badges is now built into faculty profile pages powered by Profiles Research Networking Software (Profiles RNS). First to embed the badges in their faculty pages is the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Altmetric badges provide an at-a-glance summary of the amount and type of attention an individual research output has received online.
Profiles RNS is an NIH-funded open source tool to speed the process of finding researchers with specific areas of expertise for collaboration and professional networking, and makes it easy for institutions to create and maintain a complete searchable library of web-based electronic CVs.
The addition of the Altmetric badges means that users will be able to easily access real-time attention insights for individual research outputs listed on a researcher's profile page.
Attention data is collated from a range of online sources including public policy documents, mainstream media, Wikipedia, social networks, blogs, and academic forums such as Mendeley and post-publication peer-review platforms to provide a more comprehensive picture of the online reach and influence of the research.
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