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We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts. Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 12h
Oh wow that’s a big step by Google, and a good one. Gonna check that out tracking doesn’t include any of these bottom feeder slop sites. They aren’t familiar but we track like 30,000 sites within news. Gotta be sure!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 12h
😂 “Tweet mentions are great for when you’re reading and want two thousand of something”
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20h
This one is for you, @writingmonicker.bsky.social!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20h
Any questions or feedback? Hit us up ion the DMs or at support@altmetric.com
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20h
Notes on data availability Coverage is available from 2021 onwards. The frequency of the data points on the chart varies by time period due to prior data gathering cadences: 2021 - 2023: yearly data points Jan 2024 to Aug 2026: monthly data points Sept 2026 onwards: weekly data points
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20h
This new chart is available to all Explorer subscribers with access to Details Pages, and all Altmetric Bookmarklet users. Logged-out visitors will see a prompt to log in to Explorer to see the chart. This does not affect the Mendeley demographics tab, which stays free and unlocked for everyone.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20h
NEW Mendeley Readership History timeline on Details Pages. When we launched the attention timelines on our details pages last year, one item was conspicuously absent: Mendeley. Until now, Details Pages could only show where the count of Mendeley readers stands today. Here's what you get today:
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 29/09/2026
Digital Science is proud to be involved in this work with @timeshighered.bsky.social and the Association of Commonwealth Universities, providing new insights into Sub-Saharan African research.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
The full list of our new policy sources are here. Any questions, hit us up!
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New policy sources - September 2026
Altmetric curates policy sources that are designed to change or otherwise influence guidelines, policy or practice.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
YouTube recommendation #5: A compilation of delightful Mitch Hedberg one liners. We lost Hedberg a shade after his 37th birthday. His relatively small discography is so high quality that it bears endless re-listens. Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWuY...
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Mitch Hedberg Masterclass: 73 Perfect One-Liners Every Comic Should Study
YouTube video by Jerry Corley aka The Joke Doctor
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
5. Wilder.org Here's a policy org that does as much in direct services for the needy and underrepresented in Minnesota as they do advocacy and policy recommendations (they've cited thousands of bits of research). If you're in Minnesota, they accept volunteers!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
YouTube recommendation #4: Any video by Good Work, but especially this one on slop bowls. @morningbrew.bsky.social make very funny and brief documentaries on serious business/tech subjects that are never not enjoyable. You'll be laughing and learning in no time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsp2...
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Why are we eating slop?
YouTube video by Good Work
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
4. IBM Center for The Business of Government This org is a research institute funded by IBM that connects academic and practitioner research to the practical challenges of public sector management. Their eye-catching documents feature fascinating vignettes not normally found in policy. Such as:
Reflections from the Author
I learned lessons about reality the hard way as a young National
Security Council staffer in the 1970s. My beat was Europe, and one
part of it meant keeping in touch with a Cold War Soviet ally in
Eastern Europe that should remain nameless. That entailed diplomatic lunches at mediocre restaurants around Washington. It turned
out that we had broken this country’s diplomatic codes and were
reading their dispatches. I was junior in the Washington scheme of
things but still, given my White House connection, I probably was
the diplomat’s most impressive contact. As a result, in his classified
reporting, he had attributed almost anything he learned to me,
which earned me a gentle scolding from my boss, National Security
Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, asking why I was talking out of school
about issues far from my European beat.

From p 11 of this document: https://delivery-p161909-e1920309.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/assets/urn:aaid:aem:f42c49ea-49a8-424f-a18a-08d236192aab/original/as/learning-across-the-divide.pdf
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
YouTube recommendation #3: Pastor John Ortberg - "It All Goes Back in the Box" We don't take anything with us. It's what we leave behind that counts. Ortberg (or rather his grandmother) puts it better than most.
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It All Goes Back In The Box
YouTube video by Scottsdale Bible Church
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
3. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) The think tank and policy org world is currently rethinking its place in the modern landscape after the unpredictable cuts of the last few years. Chief among their continuing roles is that of defenders of human rights when no-one else does.
The Other New York: The Legacy of Slavery in the Case for Reparations Now
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
YouTube recommendation #2: The Chair (by Curry Barker) Before you knew him as the breakout YouTube-born director of the hit film #Obsession, Barker and his actor buds had been pumping out high quality and slick whacky and frightening content. Such as:
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THE CHAIR (Award Winning Horror Short Film Directed by Curry Barker)
YouTube video by that's a bad idea
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
2. Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) EPIC by name, EPIC by nature - this policy org publishes documents that go supremely hard. Such as: epic.org/wp-content/u...
Five television sets in black and white with "Who's Got the Power?" with the subtitle "Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Union Busting"
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
YouTube recommendation #1: If you somehow have not heard of the Bricks & Minifigs controversy, this opening video is the wildest of rides. Try and ignore the watermarks on screen for the first while, it goes away. Worth it.
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I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 of LEGO
YouTube video by Reckless Ben
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
1. ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, based in Indonesia, don't produce huge volumes, but what they do produce is important and often cites research that hasn't otherwise been shared online. That makes citations by them valuable for you researcher lot!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
We added 19 new policy organisations to our tracking last month! Here are five of them, interspersed with YouTube videos that will also make your day. You should totally check them out.
Reckless Ben's first video on Bricks & MinifigsThe Chair by Curry BarkerGood Work video thumbnailPure Mitch Hedberg. What could be nicer? Nothing, that's what.
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 28/09/2026
⏰ The countdown is on! Applications for the 2026 Digital Science Catalyst Grant close in one week. #CatalystGrant 💡🌱 Apply now for a chance to win an equity-free grant of up to £25,000. 🔗 Full details & apply here: bit.ly/4cnE9O6 🗓️ Deadline: Monday 5 October 2026, 5pm BST / 12pm EDT.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/09/2026
Papers discussed in @cassyni.bsky.social talks will now receive a seminar mention on their Altmetric badges. A seminar mention will carry the same weight as a policy document or clinical guideline.
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Altmetric adds Cassyni seminars to research scores
Research talks will now feed into Altmetric Attention Scores, giving universities and publishers a broader view of how scholarly work is discussed.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 25/09/2026
What an absolute peak image generator
I never knew love until I went to Greggs. Now I can't live if living is without a lukewarm steak bake
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 24/09/2026
We aim to have the most high definition meaninglessness known to humanity! The pursuit of fine-grained emptiness is our endless crucible. Seriously though Zotero is totally awesome and well-engineered, I’ll rattle our developers’ cages about it again.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 24/09/2026
We've had Zotero on our Wishlist of new sources for a while, it's definitely on the request list from many users. Look forward to more meaninglessness!
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 23/09/2026
‪By linking 160M+ publications, grants, and trials with real-time public attention, tools like @dimensions.ai & @altmetric.com help map the path forward.‬ ‪Stay tuned for our colleagues at Digital Science who will be sharing their personal stories this week. ♥️‬
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Research Information @researchinfo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW EXPERT VIEWPOINT: Why research analytics built on AI needs to show its working www.researchinformation.info/viewpoint/wh... Merely appearing useful – versus being reliable, credible or provable – are different things, writes Kate Byrne @digital-science.com @dimensions.ai @altmetric.com
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Why research analytics built on AI needs to show its working - Research Information
Merely appearing useful – versus being reliable, credible or provable – are different things, writes Kate Byrne
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 22/09/2026
Shows how much we are all in the out-crowd now 😂
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 21/09/2026
So it’s looking PRETTY MUCH like it’s between us and @dril.bsky.social
No votes for us actually but there’s STILL A CHANCE
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 21/09/2026
@godfrey-alt.bsky.social have a look at this date behaviour via Stackexchange - can you investigate perhaps?
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 21/09/2026
That's a very old Q&A mention extending the graph! But it's not clear, I'll ask the Altmetric elves to consider making singular entries more clear. Might be a limitation of scaling though.
2015-09-10
5:49 PM UTC
Why did human lifespans drop after the Flood?
Q&A post
In Genesis 5, a brief account of the lives of Adam's descendants is narrated. All of them had long lives, for instance, Adam lived 930 years, Seth lived 912 years, etc. But in Genesis 6:3, God seems to shorten the lifespan of man to 120 years or at...
Cites the following from your search query:

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Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition
Article in Science, August 2023Graph of attention over time
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 21/09/2026
Heads up, this page has been fixed now, thanks for flagging.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 21/09/2026
@egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy should be good to go now.
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Plague Doctor We’re So Back Meme
Alt: Plague Doctor We’re So Back Meme
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20/09/2026
Got it, investigating.
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Please Stand By Test Pattern
Alt: Please Stand By Test Pattern
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 19/09/2026
Yo, that’s not good. We are on it! We had some API intermittency today, will get the team on it.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 16/09/2026
Discover one of the top-performing PNAS Nexus articles on Altmetric for the past three months! “Pulling up the ladder: Enduring adversity increases opposition to reform” by Yoosun Kim et al. scored 46—driven by strong media attention. Read more: ow.ly/zTks50ZNWE9
Cover of a hut with a thatched roof. PNAS Nexus, ISSN: 2752-6542. June 1, 2026, Volume 5 No. 6. Pnasnexus.org. The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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Miguel Garcia @miguelgarcia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cassyni's research talks are now a new colour in @altmetric.com 🙌
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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#scicomm job alert!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 15/09/2026
Oh it was this: bsky.app/profile/altm... Seminars are our first pink source!
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 14/09/2026
See Miguel Garcia (VP of Product, Digital Science) discussing @altmetric.com's new research attention source - seminars - with Ben Kaube (Co-founder, Cassyni). @cassyni.bsky.social #Altmetric #altmetrics
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
News, patents, policy and Wikipedia all citing. Quality engagement and dissemination!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
Whoops saw this four days later! Ope indeed. Yeah it renders ok for me on safari too. That Edge browser needs a turn on the naughty step. (Actually this is a bug report for our team, so thank you!)
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
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Cassyni and Altmetric partner to add seminars as a research attention source
Research discussed in a Cassyni talk now counts towards the paper’s Altmetric Attention Score.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
Yes we took Matthijs's en-Dorst-ment literally and started a slow and rather ill-advised rebrand.
This sort of endorsement is what gets us out of the collective Altmetric bed in the morning.

9 Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dor... • 25m
Don't sell yourself short: of all the companies with a butthole for a logo, you are by far my favourite!

11:50 • 9 Sep 2026 & Everybody can reply v
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
It's actually an interesting debate! We already track Nature News and The Conversation the same way - The Conversation articles are both a news source for research, and because they are composed so heavily by researchers, we track how they are in turn shared as pieces of research too.
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Cassyni @cassyni.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cassyni talks now earn their own Altmetric Attention Score and contribute to the Attention Score of the papers they mention. Read the full announcement: cassyni.com/pages/press/... @digital-science.com @altmetric.com
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
Seminar attention can be found on all our public details pages, and all Altmetric Explorer users will find it along with our other attention sources in the Altmetric database. Let us know if you have questions, or if you find particularly interesting seminars covering your own research!
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
“A talk is a research output, and it should be measurable the way an article is. That is why talks carry DOIs, are indexed in @dimensions.ai , and are now measured by Altmetric.” Ben Kaube, Co-founder of Cassyni.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
That seminar itself has its own attention on other platforms. In fact this video seminar was ALSO mentioned on a Youtube video! So that's one video citing a different video on another platform, which cites the paper. cassyni.com/events/Rfbzk...
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Spider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily Seaham
ALT: Spider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily Seaham
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026
This one shows off the tracking we deployed not just for research mentioned in a seminar, but the second order sharing and citing of the seminar itself elsewhere. This article is cited in a seminar by researchers from Ben Gurion University:
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Mechanisms of tissue and cell-type specificity in heritable traits and diseases
In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. Mentioned by 111 X users, 4 Facebook pages and 2 Bluesky users.
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