1. INTRODUCING Explorer for Institutions v2
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INTRODUCING Explorer for Institutions v2
How to browse, monitor and report on the reach of your research with EFIv2

2. 2014
Explorer for Institutions v1
2016
Explorer for Institutions v2

3. How does it work at Altmetric?

4. TRACKING A RESEARCH OUTPUT
An output (journal article, dataset, etc)
An identifier attached to the output (DOI, PMID, etc)
Mentions in a source

5. Twitter, Facebook, Google+,
News outlets & Blogs
Over 2000 news sites
Global coverage
9,000+ Blogs
Post-publication peer review
Publons
Pubpeer
Policy documents
NICE Evidence
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Many more…
Other sources
Syllabi NEW
Scopus Citations NEW
Wikipedia
Youtube
Reddit
F1000
Q&A
Reference
managers
Mendeley, Citeulike etc
Reader counts
Social media
Twitter, Facebook, Google+,
Public posts only

6. SCHOLARLY IDENTIFIERS TRACKED: MORE THAN DOIs
General
PubMed ID
Health Sciences
arXiv ID
Physics, Mathematics & Computer Sciences
ADS ID
Astrophysics data system
SSRN ID
Social Sciences
RePEC ID
Economics
ISBNs
Handles
ClinicalTrials.gov Records
Medicine/biomedical
URN
Research Outputs

7. CAPTURING ATTENTION Follow a list of domains.
E.g. nature.com, lse.ac.uk, figshare.com
Search for links to those domains in attention sources.
E.g. blogs, news, policy documents, social media.
Collate attention.
Disambiguation across different versions.
Display data in
Altmetric Details Pages.

8. ALTMETRIC ATTENTION SCORE
Provides an indicator of the attention surrounding a research output.
Volume
Sources
Authors
The score for an article rises as more people mention it.
Each source category contributes a different base amount to the final score.
How often the author of each mention talks about scholarly articles influences the contribution of the mention.
The Altmetric score is intended to provide an indicator of the attention surrounding a research output. Although it may be straightforward enough to monitor the attention surrounding one research output, for example, it becomes harder to identify where to focus your efforts when looking at a larger set. The number alone can of course not tell you anything about what prompted the attention, where it came from, or what people were saying, but it does at least give you a place to start – “is there online activity around this research output that would be worth investigating further?”
The Altmetric score is an automatically calculated, weighted algorithm. It is based on 3 main factors:
1. The volume of the mentions (how many were there?)
2. The source of the mentions (were they high-profile news stories, re-tweets, or perhaps a Wikipedia reference?)
3. The author of the mentions (was it the journal publisher, or an influential academic?)
Combined, the score represents a weighted approximation of all the attention we’ve picked up for a research output, rather than a raw total of the number of mentions.
Read more about the score here: altmetric.com/blog/scoreanddonut/

9. Always look at what people are saying And not just at the numbers Attention doesn’t = quality

10. Altmetric Explorer for Institutions
Search, filter, sort, save, analyze and export altmetrics data

11. Why did we build Explorer for Institution v2?
We received lots of user feedback about v1 that we wanted to incorporate into the new platform.
We wanted to…
Make it easier for you to find relevant research outputs and Altmetric data.
Help you to quickly see highlights of attention for your research outputs.
Make it easier for you include Altmetric data in your reporting.
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Since January 2015, we have been developing the new version of Explorer for Institutions.
With the assistance of 6 dedicated institutional development partners (participating in the Altmetric Beta Testing Programme), we worked to incorporate user feedback at every stage of development.

12. EFI v2 was released in September 2016!
What’s new?
The new Explorer for Institutions v2 (EFI v2) lets you…
Find research outputs and their altmetrics data much more quickly
Visualize the data in a more meaningful way
Exciting features include:
Powerful searching and sorting capabilities
Richer visualizations for data reporting
Beautiful, intuitive user interface
EFI v2 was released in September 2016!
In particular we decided to focus EFI v2 on the major use cases for researchers, research administrators, and librarians.
We specifically wanted to make it easier to search for and report on relevant Altmetric data.
The launch date for the first release of EFI v2 is 15 September, and a small number of customers will be rolled out to the new platform.
Following the official launch date, we will continue to add new features and roll-out the new version to our customers around the world.
One of the new features “under the hood” is that the Explorer will now show ALL research outputs that have been provided to us by the institution through the data implementation – this means that we will generate Altmetric records for all research outputs from an institution regardless of whether or not that output has been mentioned before. As such, we are able to display citation counts and Mendeley readership for records that have no Altmetric score/attention.

13. What can the Altmetric Explorer help you with?
Find research outputs
Search for your institution’s research or dive into Altmetric’s database of over 7M research outputs.
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Discover Altmetric insights
Uncover engagement, influence, and reach for your institution’s research, and visualize the data beautifully.
Report on key achievements
Incorporate Altmetric data into impact case studies and other reports.
@jean_draws

14. Detailed search results
Prominent search bar
Find research outputs
Results analysis
Report on key achievements
Detailed search results
Discover Altmetric insights
The new Explorer interface is centered around 3 important facets:
Finding research outputs (with a prominent search bar)
Discovering Altmetric insights (with a detailed search result section)
Reporting on key achievements (with a comprehensive results analysis section)

15. Overview of key features
Browse altmetrics for your institution and search across the entire database
Filter by your authors and departments
Search by item type: articles, data sets, books, etc.
Save searches and export data
Sort results by Altmetric Attention Score, mention source, or publication date
Analyze results

16. Demo!

17. Altmetrics in practice
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18. Demonstrating research engagement
Altmetric help you meet reporting requirements and showcase your research:
REPORTING
Grant applications
Funder reporting
Reputation management
Benchmarking and KPIs
Recruitment & review
SHOWCASING
Identifying research to share
Integration in profiles/IRs
Impact on public policy
Identifying key researchers
Recognizing ECRs
DISCOVERY
Finding trending research
Identifying collaborators
Collection development
Encourage IR/CRIS deposit
Liaison - share top mentions

19. How do I access EFI v2?
Your existing login credentials and saved data (workspaces, custom groups, and alerts) have been migrated to EFI v2.
If you use IP-based authentication, you can automatically start using EFI v2 by going to
UPGRADE DAY
AUTUMN 2016

20. Need any help? Feel free to ask your questions now!
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Support Center: help.altmetric.com
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