ORCID and Plum Analytics Work Together to Easily Provide Altmetric Information to Researchers | Plum Analytics - Measuring Research Impact

"ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.  Once the effort to create ORCID profiles for researchers has been done, you can now easily connect their scholarly activities with PlumXTM to track metrics about their research.

Specifically, PlumX uses the ORCID API to retrieve a list of the researcher’s public works and then uses the information to establish a PlumX researcher profile and gather metrics about the research’s impact ..."