Social Media can help measure “buzz” and attention. They indicate that people are actively engaging with the research. Mentions are a measurement of activities such as news articles or blog posts about research. Captures can be an early indicator of citations. * Usage metrics are not displayed in ScienceDirect at this time.Ĭapture metrics indicates that someone wants to come back to the work. After citations, Usage is the top statistic researchers want to know. Usage indicates whether anyone is reading the articles or otherwise using the research. These metrics are collectively known as PlumX Metrics.īy categorizing the metrics into five categories – Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media and Citations – PlumX helps make sense of a large amount of metrics data and enables analysis by comparing metrics that are similar.Ī data visualization that dynamically changes to indicate the relative number of metrics in each category. Plum Analytics gathers these footprints and creates and categorizes metrics on individual pieces of research output (articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and many more).

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