Engineering and Public Policy: Your Research Impact: Altmetric Explorer

One of the databases offered by the University Libraries, you can also access it via the Databases A-Z page.

Use it to see the number of times your work is mentioned on

• Social Media 
• Policy and Patents
• News (traditional and field specific)
• Blogs (major organizations and individuals)
• Other Sources (like Mendeley and CiteULike)
• Academic Sources 

To be tracked, your work must have a research output identifier, for example, a DOI, ISBN, etc.

Important: Altmetric Explorer

• measures attention, not quality.
• only tracks public attention.
• tracts only direct attention.
• provides a single metric that can be used for comparisons, so use it wisely 

Altmetric Explorer can also be use to see outputs of the University as a whole or by department.

First you'll need to create an account:

The default screen is the result for Carnegie Mellon as a whole. Click edit search to search other variables, such as a person's name, a department, keywords, etc.  Clicking on the badges to the left of an item brings up more information.  For example, clicking on the colored badge next to the first article "Observation of...." will bring up an Attention score and where mentioned details for that article.

Enter a Researcher's name or department and click "Run Search" (at the bottom of the screen).  Default is searching Carnegie Mellon, but you can search the full database and/or search by other parameters such as keyword, title, publications, etc.

With the results, you can see Highlights (default), research outputs, timeline, demographics, mentions, and journals.  Searches can be saved as well. Clicking on the badges to the left of an item brings up more information.  For example, clicking on the colored badge next to the first article "Evaluation of a proposal..." will bring up an Attention score and where mentioned details for that article.

Julie Chen 

Contact Info
Julie Chen, Librarian
Sorrells Engineering & Science Library, Wean Hall
412-268-6116