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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23h
It's not often that an app launches a feature you've been waiting a decade for. This week, that dream came real. Altmetric has added a timeline for Mendeley. Why does this matter? Timelines are essential to understand "what activities drive engagement and impact". #scientometrics #altmetrics
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 02/07/2026
Nice explainer! Although ironically it wouldn’t count towards the article’s own altmetric attention without a link. osf.io/preprints/so... FYI @herrison2000.bsky.social
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Really interesting read on #menopause science and #socialmedia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Divergence in Menopause Symptom Narratives Between Online and Clinical Settings
This cross-sectional study investigates how menopause-related symptoms discussed in user-generated online posts compared with symptoms documented in electronic health record clinicial notes.
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Need to know how many more citations and altmetrics your #oa paper might get, by discipline and year? This paper has _all_ the data #bibliometrics #altmetrics #openaccess #resimpact direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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Evaluating open access advantages for citations and altmetrics (2011–2021): A dynamic and evolving relationship
Abstract. Differences between the impacts of Open Access (OA) and non-OA research have been observed over a range of citation and altmetric indicators, usually finding an Open Access Advantage (OAA). ...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Happy to announce a new paper on the OA Advantages, the importance (and persistence) of the Early Advantage - asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... - #altmetrics #altmetric #openaccess
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<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Open Access has changed how research is published and discovered. Studies generally report that OA articles are cited and mentioned more often than non-OA, describing an open access advantage (OAA). ....
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hey. It's me, talking about Bluesky, Reddit and X (now that Musk has stepped away from politics, a bit). But mostly it's the ever awesome @andytattersall.bsky.social
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 05/03/2026
🌟 NEW blog post: How can #AI help uncover citation data that might otherwise be missed? Our team has used AI to extract citation data from images of conference posters shared on social media. Their work is now published in JMIR AI. JMIR Publications 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/JURi50YpCVc
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
1/5 My PhD thesis has finally been posted. I spent time looking at #altmetrics and citation rates of #openaccess vs non-oa research. There are several findings: firstly, the 'advantage' is very (very) different per discipline and metric Download here tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...
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The development and drivers of the impact advantages of open access research
Introduction: The tendency for Open Access (OA) research to attract more citations and online attention than non-OA research is widely referred to as the Open Access Advantage (OAA). While numerous hy...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
One of my goals for 2026 is to draft/write a novel based on forensic scientometrics, following a couple of meetings i had with people who were - i kid you not - working with 2 "security agencies" as forensic scientometricians ... anyway, some colleagues just published this - arxiv.org/abs/2602.14793
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Beyond Retractions: Forensic Scientometrics Techniques to Identify Research Misconduct, Citation Leakage, and Funding Anomalies
This paper presents a forensic scientometric case study of the Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network, a fabricated research collective that operated primarily between 2019 and 2022 while embedding i...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Podcast mentions have a unique attention profile! @altmetric.com launched podcast tracking last year, so I thought I'd confirm that podcasts are like news, and mostly happening in the year of publication. They're not - 50% from 2022 pubs in that year, 10% last year, so slower and longer-lasting
A timeline of altmetric attention showing that podcasts are slower and longer-lasting than news
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Just witnessed an extraordinary murmuration of starlings - not my video - 100,00s birds - and really, we don't know why these humble birds do such extraordinary things - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A little while ago, we added sentiment analysis to #altmetric @altmetric.bsky.social and we (well, Carlos led and the rest of us helped...) wrote a paper on how we did it and what we did www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
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Frontiers | Sentiment analysis of research attention: the Altmetric proof of concept
Traditional bibliometric approaches to research impact assessment have predominantly relied on citation counts, overlooking the qualitative dimensions of how...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Pretty excited to be talking about podcasts and the humanities tomorrow. It's a free event, do come along and listen to me (and, ahem, everyone else...) www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual...
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5th Annual Humanities Podcasting Network Symposium: “Podcasting & Power"
Join us for the 5th Annual Humanities Podcasting Network Symposium to learn about the "Podcasting & Power" in podcasting!
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Over at @altmetric.com we can hear you! We just added podcasts to the data sources we track for links to academic research, and yes! This does mean a new donut colour, and yes, there are research outputs that only have podcast attention! #altmetrics
I can't hear you, from sponge bobA list of linked podcasts
A purple doughnut, associated with a chapter on Fostering a culture of growth and belonging
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A conversation about biases in data led me to discover the shocking lack of data into female human sensory data, and this intriguing model that shows a hypothetical female sensory homunculus doi.org/10.1162/leon...
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The Missing Female Homunculus
Abstract. The somatosensory homunculus shows an exaggerated human figure that illustrates the proportion of the brain devoted to the sense of touch in each part of the body. Originally based on Wilder...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Thesis now at 56,000 words, I don't want to go beyond 60. I have a list of stuff that needs to be written. I can do this (I just can't do everything else as well 😂)
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My own little "mike drop" moment. As of May 2025, new research is more likely to get attention on Bluesky than X. Me speaking at ISMPP last week #omnichannel #altmetrics #science @ismpp.bsky.social
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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 16/05/2025
"As of May, this month, I stand here before you and I tell you: new publications get more attention on Bluesky than X." —Mike Taylor's drop the mic moment. @herrison2000.bsky.social speaking at ISMPP 2025 in Washington, D.C. @ismpp.bsky.social @altmetric.com @bsky.app 🦋 #AcademicSky
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Quick analysis of links to journal articles on Bluesky versus X, we find that (from May 2025 pubs) Bs is now clearly dominant, 77k to 65k. Threads as yet unknown #altmetrics #science
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"The paucity of rare disease-related publications highlights an urgent need for increasing knowledge on rare diseases through medical literature to better serve patients, their families, and the healthcare professionals who treat them" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How many zebras are there now? An updated report on publications on rare diseases in medical literature
Previously, we reported that medical literature on rare diseases was both scarce and mostly inaccessible. In this study, we evaluated changes in the past 5 years. We performed a systematic search o...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/04/2025
Two-headed Headline Writing Machine @careia.bsky.social and @herrison2000.bsky.social, our resident data wranglers, recently showed up on the Medical Affairs podcast to drop some science on Bluesky versus X formerly Twitter. In 20 minutes they drop several chunky revelations.
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Academics largely trust and would recommend Wikipedia pages that include citations to their academic work. New paper published with Kath Burton, Charles Watkinson, Carlos Areia and self in PlosOne today - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #altmetrics
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Research citations building trust in Wikipedia: Results from a survey of published authors
The use of Wikipedia citations in scholarly research has been the topic of much inquiry over the past decade, however little is known regarding perceived Researchers trustworthiness of Wikipedia citat...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Wow, quoted by @timeshighered.bsky.social this morning on the migration from X to Bluesky - www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi... - you need to register to read, but free
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What do the Kardashians do in the lab? Carlos and myself talk up our latest work, "in the lab with the Kardashians", it's about how celebrity boosts impact, from "Postmortum of the Earl of Balcarres" (17th century), through Buffy Studies to more ... kurrent research open.spotify.com/episode/6hwI...
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The Kardashian Effect: How Celebrity Culture Influences Research Trends
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"in March 2025, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to new research than X" www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...
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Bluesky
Bluesky is now available in Altmetric as an attention source. Analyze social engagement with a comprehensive view of your research influence.
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Epic idea
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
You'd almost think they haven't read their own press release www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments
Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A very powerful speech on the importance of supporting allies and upholding international agreements that you've signed youtu.be/rFqvErYqFRs?...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump's ludicrous suggestion for Gaza isn't quite genocide, but it's on its way. Can't think anything more likely to make the area peaceful than a second nakba
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Non-English language Wikipedias make unique contributions to the representation of research in their languages (they're NOT just mini-me English Wikis) - arxiv.org/abs/2501.09666 - check out our arxiv preprint
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Evaluating the diversity of scientific discourse on twenty-one multilingual Wikipedias using citation analysis
INTRODUCTION: Wikipedia is a major source of information, particularly for medical and health content, citing over 4 million scholarly publications. However, the representation of research-based knowl...
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Once again, I find myself talking about the Earl of Balcarres, and his post-mortum, as published in 1665: an example of celebrities attracting attention in science doi.org/10.1098/rstl...
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Home Page
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
While it's not #WorldTBDay I'd like to flag the amazing work done by APOPO.org fighting #Tuberculosis with Giant African Pouched Rats bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Training Rats To Save Lives • APOPO
Over 60 countries are contaminated with hidden landmines and other explosive remnants of war, that cause tragic accidents and hamper communities from
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What a Completely Delightful Green 😉👩‍⚕️
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just been listening to some old Rest is History podcasts. Hysterically, discussing a Twitter debate on leading politicians, remind each other that it's notoriously left wing. Something I shall use next time I lecture on the dynamic nature of altmetrics and social media @altmetric.com
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/10/2024
From the archives: "How tracking language diversity in Wikipedia gives deeper insights into attention" by @herrison2000.bsky.social. We track 41 Wikipedia instances, and 45% of the citations are in non-English languages. #AcademicSky #altmetrics www.altmetric.com/blog/trackin...
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How tracking language diversity in Wikipedia gives deeper insights into attention
Altmetric's expansion to include multi-language tracking in Wikipedia was a step in the direction of gaining a deeper comprehension of attention beyond the English-speaking world.
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herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Two weeks ago Carrie Brubaker, Carlos Areia and me recorded a pod for MAPS about 'interesting' research in the pharma space. I picked 2 articles about TB, which kills millions. A new drug nature.com/articles/s41... and APOPA's work bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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A first-in-class leucyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitor, ganfeborole, for rifampicin-susceptible tuberculosis: a phase 2a open-label, randomized trial - Nature Medicine
A new inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis leucyl-tRNA synthetase is associated with bactericidal activity in humans and may be a candidate for combination therapy of tuberculosis.
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