The most comprehensive source of altmetrics joins Elsevier – Plum Analytics

"Combining with Elsevier means we can take our approach to measuring research impact to a wider audience. We will benefit from greater development resources and access to a global network. Our founding vision was to bring modern ways of measuring research impact to individuals and organizations that use and analyze research. I’m incredibly proud that we achieved this, and I’m looking forward to this exciting new chapter with Elsevier.

For current Plum Analytics customers and users, moving over from EBSCO to Elsevier will just be business as usual. The Plum Analytics support team will continue to be available to answer questions, help with implementations, etc. We look forward to working with our customers on how they can use the growing set of metrics to support their researchers and answer some of the questions around research. You can reach the support team by emailing Support@plumanalytics.com.

I will continue as Managing Director of Plum Analytics but will now also work with Elsevier’s CiteScore basket of metrics and research analytics products to provide a rich environment to analyze, understand and measure research impact.

I believe combining with Elsevier will help our customers and the adoption of altmetrics industry-wide in important ways. We will be sharing our plans in more detail over the coming months, but we anticipate leveraging the rich data from Elsevier as well as continuing to tell a more complete story of how research is being engaged with. PlumX already includes Capture metrics from Mendeley and Citation metrics from Scopus. You can expect the level of integration to go up, and PlumX metrics to also be included in both these products. Plus we’ll integrate Plum Analytics’ altmetrics into Elsevier’s institutional research products SciVal and Pure."