herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What activities drive engagement? Now you can find out. doi.org/10.1007/s111... - "Mendeley reads grow and grow" doi.org/10.1002/asi.... - "Open Access is key to early activity" (These last two are mine)doi.org 000
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Altmetric - and #altmetrics - continues to evolve, to support our understanding of what, how and why people read, use and cite research. Whenever we add new data, I often say "there are a couple of papers here". This is different: there's a couple of PhDs. 000
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We know that when people bookmark research, they intend to read or cite it - and we know that people discover research in increasingly diverse ways. doi.org/10.1002/asi.... - "I'm going to add or read when I add to Mendeley" doi.org/10.1002/asi.... - "Early Mendeley correlates with future citations"doi.org<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online LibraryAlthough Mendeley bookmarking counts appear to correlate moderately with conventional citation metrics, it is not known whether academic publications are bookmarked in Mendeley in order to be read or... 011
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It'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 342
Reposted by @herrison2000.bsky.socialAltmetric @altmetric.com · 02/07/2026Nice 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 1115
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Really interesting read on #menopause science and #socialmedia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comDivergence in Menopause Symptom Narratives Between Online and Clinical SettingsThis cross-sectional study investigates how menopause-related symptoms discussed in user-generated online posts compared with symptoms documented in electronic health record clinicial notes. 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Need 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/...direct.mit.eduEvaluating open access advantages for citations and altmetrics (2011–2021): A dynamic and evolving relationshipAbstract. 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). ... 011
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Happy 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 #openaccessasistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online LibraryOpen 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). .... 011
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Hey. 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 141
Reposted by @herrison2000.bsky.socialDigital 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 122
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Thanks Siân - always happy to talk (hope you enjoyed the short chapter on the history, that bit was my favourite, and hardest to edit down!) 110
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Cheeky quick fix. www.draltmetrics.com 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/2026A few years ago, I jumped the gun and got the domain www.draltmetrics.com :D I need to set that up nowdraltmetrics.com 130
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/20265/5 Bonus post. I think the history of scientific revolutions, and the application of theory are worth a read. Might even raise a chuckle. Download here tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...tinyurl.comThe development and drivers of the impact advantages of open access researchIntroduction: 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... 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/20264/5 Fourth. Green is rarer than Gold OA, hasn't grown, narrow disciplinery range, tends to outperform Gold. I wouldn't bother publishing in new/lower Gold journals, personal opinion. Paper in bits on dining room table. tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...tinyurl.comThe development and drivers of the impact advantages of open access researchIntroduction: 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... 000
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/20263/5 Third. For most metrics/disciplines, there is a strong "early advantage" #citation and #altmetric effect: the relatively strong performance for #OA appears in the first year, and non-OA research mostly doesn't catch up. Paper submitted tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...tinyurl.comThe development and drivers of the impact advantages of open access researchIntroduction: 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... 012
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/20262/5 Secondly, the advantages have changed significantly over the last decade, in part (but not solely) this is likely down to the %/adoption of OA. Download here. Paper in press tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...tinyurl.comThe development and drivers of the impact advantages of open access researchIntroduction: 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... 000
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/02/20261/5 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...tinyurl.comThe development and drivers of the impact advantages of open access researchIntroduction: 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... 6154
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 19/02/2026One 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/2602.14793arxiv.orgBeyond Retractions: Forensic Scientometrics Techniques to Identify Research Misconduct, Citation Leakage, and Funding AnomaliesThis 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... 163
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Podcast 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 000
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Just 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... 020
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 31/10/2025A 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...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Sentiment analysis of research attention: the Altmetric proof of conceptTraditional bibliometric approaches to research impact assessment have predominantly relied on citation counts, overlooking the qualitative dimensions of how... 021
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Pretty 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...eventbrite.com5th 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! 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Over 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 091
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 04/10/2025A 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...doi.orgThe Missing Female HomunculusAbstract. 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... 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 28/08/2025hyhahaha, well my thesis is now submitted, so i have some headspace to noodle in the datawebs :) 140
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 14/08/2025That's just GREAT, you didn't mention my amazing podcasts with Carlos even ONCE and now I'm sulking and my dog is sulking with me 110
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Thesis 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 😂) 220
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025It's been nine years since I worked on Citescore, we didn't do anything about citations from retracted articles then, from memory that dataset wasn't available. Hans Zijlstra is the person who works on it now, I'd like to think that we'll see an annoucement with the next release 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Frankly, if the JIFs do change, that would be a huge red-flag! 020
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025My 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 020
Reposted by @herrison2000.bsky.socialDigital 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 0145
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Quick 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 031
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....tandfonline.comHow many zebras are there now? An updated report on publications on rare diseases in medical literaturePreviously, 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... 000
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I should have dropped PARADIGM SHIFT and QUANTUM LEAP. But seriously, this was not meant to happen 010
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 28/04/2025That was an epic moment. A Mike drop. 020
Reposted by @herrison2000.bsky.socialAltmetric @altmetric.com · 28/04/2025Two-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. 1154
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 28/04/2025That was supposed to be between us 😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😎😎😎 110
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Academics 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... #altmetricsjournals.plos.orgResearch citations building trust in Wikipedia: Results from a survey of published authorsThe 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... 061
Reposted by @herrison2000.bsky.socialTimes Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Bluesky 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 #EduSkytimeshighereducation.comX’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for researchData indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover 7933295
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Wow, 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 freetimeshighereducation.comX’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for researchData indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover 031
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 11/04/2025There are other populations (e.g. clinicians) that seem stronger on X than BS (very early observation). I think this is a case of early-adopter / creators moving first / and then the audience will follow. (It implies, of course, that re-migration to X is possible, in pursuit of an active audience) 000
Reposted by @herrison2000.bsky.socialMargot 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.'timeshighereducation.comX’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for researchData indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover 129174314387
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 09/04/2025What 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...open.spotify.comThe Kardashian Effect: How Celebrity Culture Influences Research Trends 030
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...altmetric.comBlueskyBluesky is now available in Altmetric as an attention source. Analyze social engagement with a comprehensive view of your research influence. 0185
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Say hi to my fellow doctoral students. I'm late to the game, but submitting this year. I'll send my blog draft to your email, I'm m.taylor@digital-science.com 110
herrison2000.bsky.social @herrison2000.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Posted December last year. The data we're looking at is more-or-less real time, the switch is happening in March 2025. Some days x is on top, sometimes bluesky (for new research). Blog post coming soon. 110
