Altmetric is a for-profit company which tracks social media sites, newspapers, magazines and other types of non-scholarly media. They create a score for each article with a DOI which takes into account the quality and quantity of attention received by social and traditional media sources. Altmetric makes their basic service available for free to any user. The section intended for researchers is in the box below.
Additionally Altmetric offers a "bookmarlet" called "Altmetric It!"which can be easily downloaded to any computer's bookmarks bar. If an article with a DOI is present on the screen, the "Altmetric It!" link provides an Altmetric score. This is quick way to evaluate the attention received by an article from a variety of sources.
Altmetric for Researchers offers information about news sources, blogs, tweets, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google posts, Reddit, Mendeley, Connotea, patents, and CiteULike. Each type of information source has a color code, and the Altmetric badge colors tell at a glance which sources are citing.
Once the multicolor badge is on the screen, click on it to get to the full information page from Altmetric. First is a summary page which has tabs for additional pages as needed, on each type of information source.
Additionally, it is possible to sign up via email for an alert when new cites occur, allowing researchers to keep up to date on altmetric mentions of their research.
There are two main ways to access Altmetric information on a scholarly article. Once the Altmetric badge is reached the information provided will be the same regardless of the path taken to get there.
The first way is to use the Altmetric bookmarklet Altmetric It! which can be easily downloaded to a computer bookmark bar. Once an article with a DOI is present on the screen, click the "Altmetric It!" link to see the Altmetric badge in the top right corner of the screen.
The second way is to go to the database Dimensions and call up the article (best done by searching the article title in the "title and absract" search option at the top center of the screen.) Note that newer articles work best and the article must have a DOI. Not all articles are included in the Dimensions database.
https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1111650526