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We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts. Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

New Altmetric Attention source.

Coming October 15th.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 10h

⏰ This is it - there's just over 24 hours to get your entries in for the 2025 Digital Science #CatalystGrant

🗓️ Deadline: Monday 13 October 2025, 5pm BST 12 noon EDT

💡🌱 You could win a grant of up to £25,000!

🔗 Apply now: https://ow.ly/e6AV50Xaf6L

#DataVisualization #dataviz

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

Will get both submitted for review this week!

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

I think we only pull RSS feeds. I ca check when the team is back.

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

Yeah we are biased but @dimensions.ai is great. On that page you also see the grants that funded the research too.

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 2d

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. Read 'A safe, T cell-inducing heterologous vaccine against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus in a proof-of-concept study' here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#epidemiology #episky

A safe, T cell-inducing heterologous vaccine against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus in a proof-of-concept study - Nature Communications

Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV) haemorrhagic disease is a major threat for juvenile Asian elephants. This study reports a proof-of-concept trial that evaluates the safety and immunogenicity of a vaccine against EEHV.

www.nature.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

Yes I can see over a hundred citations and even the preprint has been cited. Is this maybe an error in badge implementation or the DOI. Any be seen on your page? (It needs meta-tags but I figure they would be there as your other badge works)

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Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences - Dimensions

Wikidata is a community-maintained knowledge base that has been assembled from repositories in the fields of genomics, proteomics, genetic variants, pathways, chemical compounds, and diseases, and tha...

app.dimensions.ai

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

YES, SICK! Great numbers too. ✊

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 2d

New reddit alternative built on AT

nooki @nooki.me · 3d

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

Ok now it REALLY needs to be that.

a man is drinking a glass of water from a bottle in a kitchen .

Alt: a man is drinking a glass of water from a bottle in a kitchen .

media.tenor.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

I put this on the roadmap like a full year ago, it had better be that.

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

WE ARE FINALLY TRACKING ATTENTION TO RESEARCH ON MYSPACE AND BEBO.

…right?

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 3d

1. Dr Leslie McIntosh (our VP of Research Integrity & Security) will speak on: "The Art of the (Scholarly) Crime: Catching Authors Before They Fool Us." 🎤

That's at 11am CET on the Innovation Stage, Hall 4.0. Don't miss @mcintold.bsky.social's talk at #fbm25!

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 3d

📣 NEWS: Digital Science has made a series of recommendations for Australia’s research future in a report published today into the use of persistent identifiers #PIDs in research.

The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au.

🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

And we still very much love YOU Egon. You were one of our earliest adopters.

Love to see personal pages from researchers using these. Feel free to use the citation badges from @dimensions.ai too. Also free. Designed by our team as well actually.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

We have this list here but it doesn’t include the colours! Seems like something we should add.

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Altmetric Sources

Our mission is to track the conversations around research outputs online wherever they're happening. To that end we're constantly looking for new sources of data. Specifically what we'...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

New Altmetric Attention source.

Coming October 15th.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 5d

📣 This week: Our webinar with @researchinfo.bsky.social will explain how & why to conduct research integrity checks at scale with @dimensions.ai Author Check API.

🗓️ Thursday 9 October 2025
🕑 2pm BST 🕘 9am EDT

🔗 Don't miss out - register now: event.webcasts.com/starthere.js...

#ResearchIntegrity

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 6d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 6d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

Cartoon from the Nobel Assembly showing the three prize winners, their names, and “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 6d

Would actually be funny if one or two prize winners have a Bluesky account and aren’t on X. We’ll see!

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 6d

We applied (using a coupon) for “Nobel Prize in Sass” but we lost out to Wendy’s. AGAIN.

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 6d

We will have a quiet word

Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 6d

Too bad @nobelprize.bsky.social hasn’t got its Bluesky account up and running in time for today’s first prize announcement. (Can you have a chat with them @altmetric.com ?)

The livestream is at x.com/i/broadcasts...

The Nobel Prize

WATCH LIVE: Join us for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine announcement.

x.com

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 9d

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. Read 'Future changes in severe hail across Europe, including regional emergence of warm-type thunderstorms' here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#earthscience #geoscience ⚒️

Future changes in severe hail across Europe, including regional emergence of warm-type thunderstorms - Nature Communications

This study finds a decrease in severe hail across Europe under a high emissions scenario using km-scale climate model projections. However, very large hail remains a threat, particularly due to the emergence of tropical-like thunderstorms around the Mediterranean coasts.

www.nature.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 9d

How wonderful. Raising a glass to him tonight :-)

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 9d

“It’s like meeting god”. Sandy blond hair.

He went on to Abbotsholme as Head master.

Same guy?

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