Plum Analytics | Press Release:University of Pittsburgh Becomes First Institution to Adopt Plum Analytics to Provide Metrics for Research Output

“Plum Analytics today announced that the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) is adopting Plum to provide aggregated open metrics for the university’s research output. Plum is delivering a directory of researchers for Pitt that correlates usage and interaction metrics from an ever-growing list of Open Access sources, social networks, data repositories, and many other forms of scholarly communication. ‘Plum Analytics gives us a useful tool for the ULS to support researchers in a way that adds real value,’ said Rush Miller, University Librarian and Director. ‘In addition we expect Plum to enhance the value proposition of the Open Access initiative here at Pitt by providing new and current impact metrics for research that is made more accessible.’ The Plum Research Directory models the affiliations and research outputs of researchers in a flexible, extensible manner. Plum maps who follows or engages with the researcher and/or their work. Plum then mines the web, social networks, and university-hosted data repositories to collect and calculate metrics about the usage of each artifact. Plum’s Researcher Graph utilizes RDF, the same data model that underlies the semantic web. Plum works together with institutions to help drive the metrics that matter in determining what repositories and promotional methods work best for dissemination and interaction with their research output. Individual researchers can also use Plum to showcase their impact beyond traditional citation metrics...”