Compete effectively for research funding, with hard evidence of your reach and influence

Research projects keep your academic institution competitive and are key to driving growth. 

But there’s growing competition for grants to fund this research – which means that when you’re submitting grant applications, you have to make your institution stand out from the crowd. 

Funders need to be convinced that your institution has strong reach and influence, and that your projects have the potential to make a real-world impact. 

So for the best chance of securing funding, your applications must clearly show the success of your researchers. However, traditional bibliometrics can’t provide the detailed picture that many funders want. 

That’s where time-saving Altmetric comes in. It fills in all the gaps so you can tell funders the full story, with ultra-specific data on how your research is impacting the world. 

Uncover the data that proves your success 

1. Altmetric Explorer looks beyond citation analysis to track thousands of online mentions – policy documents, mainstream news outlets, social media, blogs, Wikipedia, online reference managers, and more – and collates them in one user-friendly platform.

• Improve grant application success – by showing funders evidence of your research’s reach and broader influence, so they can understand its benefits and intended impacts
  
• Show clear evidence – by searching for a list of DOIs relevant to the grant, finding attention highlights, and pulling out examples of mentions from the details pages
  
• Support your researchers – by easily tracking the activity surrounding their research, managing their online reputations, and uncovering examples of the broader impacts of their work

2. Institutional Repository badges – embed the colourful Altmetric Badges in your IR, showcasing the attention given to your research. The badges update automatically as new mentions are found.

What does this mean for you?

• Improve your funding pitches, so you can continue delivering the research of the future
• Win the battle for funding, by providing more evidence than your competitors
• Spot patterns and gaps in research, so you know where to focus and can strengthen your grant applications
• Show you can make a difference, by providing funders with quantifiable insights on the influence of your work

If you’re involved in research at your institution, Altmetric will help you get the funding you need to thrive and grow. Talk to our friendly team today.

Find the right talent to increase your journal’s reach and impact

The publishing industry is both competitive and saturated, so having key intelligence helps publishers to get ahead of their competition. This means it’s imperative for you to be able to find new, top-quality talent – whether they need authors, reviewers or editorial board members. 

Even longstanding journals with a natural course of growth must keep obtaining the highest-quality research to remain competitive. This puts you under increasing pressure to prove the reach and influence of your published work to stakeholders. And your teams are under pressure to measure societal and commercial impact. 

Finding the right talent for your journal can have a positive impact on your reach and influence, but tracking down this talent can be a battle. Traditionally, it’s hard to find the reliable data you need to make good hiring decisions and shape a successful strategy. 

Now Altmetric solutions and data can help you achieve your goals

The Altmetric Explorer contains over 259 million mentions of over 24 million research outputs. It’s an information goldmine – and extracting the insights you need is quick and easy.

• Find reputable editorial board members who can advise on journal policy, identify specialist topics and promote the publication.
  
• Find expert reviewers who can help with evaluating article submissions and measuring the completeness, quality and accuracy of submitted research. 
• Find great new authors whose work will boost your journal’s credibility and profile.

How it works

Find exactly what you’re looking for

• Browse the entire database using Altmetric Explorer’s powerful search and filtering options. Search by keyword, then filter by specific journals, publishers, subject areas or author affiliations to find what you need – fast.

• Use the Mention Sources tab to see which potential board members and reviewers are already engaging with your journal or others like it, who might therefore make useful additions to your publication.

• You can also use the Mentions Sources tab to see which researchers are receiving the most attention for their work, giving you a deeper insight into the scale of online presence – like the number of X (Twitter) followers.
  
• Other tabs lead you to the information you need on potential editorial board members or reviewers. 

Using the Timeline tab on your previous search you will be able to see when the mentions were received, you can narrow down to a specific time frame (years, months, weeks, days) to see who the mentions were coming from.

If you are interested in where in the world those X (Twitter) mentions are coming from you can go to our dedicated Demographics page, you can then filter by specific country for potential reviewers. Editors or even authors.

Discover how a particular paper is doing

• Use the Research Outputs tab to find out how well particular papers from a journal are doing. Filter by a specific source such as X (Twitter), Blogs or YouTube to see which papers have mentions by these sources and who is commenting on them. 

• However, if you want to look at a larger scale of X (Twitter) users the best place to start is the Mentions Sources Tab. Filter it by X (Twitter) users to see those who have commented most on the articles in your journal filter, and the last three mentions they made. 

• Find out more about an X (Twitter) User by clicking on their profile name – and to see all their mentions, simply click on the “View All Mentions” button.

See who’s influencing the conversations

• Use the Mentions Sources Tab not only to view the Total Mention Count, but also to sort by X (Twitter) Follower count to see who’s influencing the conversations around your published work.

How you benefit

• Work with distinguished, credible influencers with a respected reputation and a large following online 
• Increase publication reach and impact by having the right talent
• Show the world that your journal is at the forefront of its discipline
• Demonstrate the success of your work to stakeholders
• Stay ahead of the competition

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Identify new KOLs making their mark in your therapeutic area

To stay ahead of the competition, medical affairs teams need to work with the most valuable influencers and key opinion leaders (KOLs) in their therapeutic area. 

But searching for these KOLs is time-consuming. And you can easily miss swathes of potential collaborators – including digital opinion-leaders (DOLs), whose social media presence makes them influential, and rising star KOLs.  

Altmetric’s bespoke dashboards, in collaboration with Dimensions data, can help by searching quickly across millions of expert profiles to find the right people for your needs. Saving you hours of search time and countless missed opportunities, it also equips you to make smarter decisions.

The KOL and Rising Star dashboards:

• Quickly locate and present you with the right KOLs for your therapeutic area

• Reveal the rising stars and DOLs who can give you a serious competitive edge

• Make it easy for you to assess each person’s reach, reception and resonance

• Reveal and explore collaboration/mentorship networks between KOLs and rising stars

In minutes, you’ve pinpointed your most suitable collaborators and are ready to contact them.

Identify experts and understand their impact

1. Tap into your search criteria (report focus, research area, institution, affiliation type)

2. In seconds, get a clear picture of who’s working in your chosen therapeutic area, how long they’ve been doing so, who’s talking about this work and what they’re saying about it 

3. On the Mention Sources tab in Altmetric Explorer, use any social media listing to see who’s mentioning your search term the most

4. Or use the Demographics tab to see mentions in a specific country

Get an edge on the competition

• Find the right rising stars for you and stay ahead of competitors 
• Tap into a new pool of talent, reaching influential DOLs such as healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patient advocates
• Recruit up and coming KOLs in your field of expertise
• Be the first to spot rising stars, giving you an extra competitive advantage

Watch our video to learn more

Try our KOL and Rising Star dashboards

Whatever your focus in medical affairs, such as publication planning or communications planning, you can now find the right KOLs fast. To find out more, talk to our friendly team today.

How do you measure whether your publications are effectively helping healthcare professionals to make informed clinical decisions?

Understanding the impact of your publications is necessary to assess your performance and report back success to stakeholders. But how can you be sure that you have the full picture?

If you’re just looking at traditional citation metrics alone to measure real-world impact, you are overlooking important audiences on social media and other public engagement channels.

However, in the face of information overload, finding, combining and interpreting these measures can be costly and time-consuming and prone to human error…  

Introducing the Publication Impact dashboard

Now you can fast-track the measurement of your publication’s impact accurately across a wide range of metrics, you can also compare multiple publications to benchmark performance, making proving your success to stakeholders and strategizing for future success quick and easy. 

Understand your publication’s performance at a glance

Combining game-changing data from  Dimensions and Altmetric, you can quickly unlock an accurate assessment of your publication’s impact and performance.

You can use it to:

Talk to us and learn how we can help your publication and communications reporting

The Publication Impact dashboard can be targeted in line with your requirements and we’ll work with you to inform the research and subject areas of your therapeutic areas to match it to our data and refine it in collaboration with you. 

The dashboard is shareable so that you can easily track, monitor and share your progress with the wider business all in one place in near real-time. 

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Reach more healthcare professionals and broaden your publications’ impact

If you’re in pharma communications, you know it’s essential to reach as many healthcare professionals as possible. 

To form a strategy to achieve this, you need to know which channels and tactics will work best for you. But this is hard to discover from the mountains of data out there. 

Traditional approaches to scientific share of voice and impact-tracking take up valuable time and money. What’s more, they often miss important audiences on social media and other emerging channels. 

This is how Altmetric can help. You can instantly see what publications are having the most influence and where; which research is sparking conversations on social media; and the audience profiles of the people talking about it.

Armed with these insights, you can:

• Build an effective communication and publication strategy
• Publish in the most relevant journals for each therapeutic area
• Back up your decisions with robust, real-world data 
• Maximize your reach of healthcare professionals 

Capture valuable insights to shape your strategy

1. On the Mention Sources tab in the Altmetric Explorer, filter by individual sources (such as News) to see all the outlets that have mentioned outputs in their search results.

2. You can then either view the last three recent mentions, or go to the Mentions tab to see all the mentions made by that particular source. 

3. If you’re focused on a particular organization, you can also search for that single source in the Mentions Tab.

Now you have valuable, exportable data that reveals where your target audience is accessing research, and how successfully those journals are reaching a larger audience.

Measure your share of voice

The Share of Voice dashboard reveals how patients, doctors and the public are engaging with your research and communications.

• See your scientific share of voice at a glance – with the analysis of thousands of online conversations, precisely customized to your specific therapeutic area, drug or topic of interest and presented to you in a clear visual dashboard 
• See the sentiment of conversations people are having across social media in near real-time – and even which audience profile they are
• Identify which publications are having the most influence – and use this to shape your future strategies

If you’re in pharmaceutical communications or marketing, you’ll be able to make smarter decisions, support them with hard evidence, and drive effective strategies that get better results. To find out more, talk to our friendly team today.

Medical affairs teams need to understand where their research is receiving attention and analyze results to inform future research strategies. Publications management staff are constantly seeking to understand metrics and reach around their publications and that’s how Altmetric can help.

Report on online attention for medical publications

With a robust publishing program, publications teams are keen to better understand which of their publications receive the most engagement amongst a broader audience, who it came from, and if they could find trends by therapeutic area, drug, manuscript type and other factors. In doing so they can gather data on their research’s reach post-publication and identify potential improvements and concepts for future publication plans.
The Altmetric Explorer can help them to get an overall view of the online attention for a large sample size of publications. This included mentions from policy documents, mainstream and social media, Wikipedia and other scholarly and non-scholarly blogs and forums. Teams can then assess the publications to determine the top ten by level of attention, article type, therapeutic area, and product.

Use exported data to produce extensive visualizations.

Teams can take this one step further with sentiment analysis. Our consultancy team can help draw further analysis of the content and the online attention is receiving, by achieving an in-depth analysis of the data gathered from the online sources to help grow understanding of audiences and reach, and to identify areas for improvement.

If you would like to speak to us about how Altmetric can support you, please get in touch with our friendly team today.