Research Impact for Fine Arts and Music

Altmetric Explorer tracks social media and policy mentions for publications that have authors affiliated with the University of Melbourne. Metrics for outputs come from four main types of sources including:

• social media
• policy documents
• mainstream media
• online reference manager and publisher download data

Access additional functionality, such as the ability to save searches, set up Shareable Reports, set up email reports, and more registering for a personal Altmetric Explorer account (access via Library Catalogue).

Altmetrics Explorer data may be embedded into databases, e-journals or institutional repositories (such as Minerva Access).

For any online article with a DOI you can instantly see the Altmetrics Explorer data with the Altmetric bookmarklet (browser extension, requires registration).

Example:

Lustig, R. H., Schmidt, L. A., & Brindis, C. D. (2012). Public health: The toxic truth about sugar. Nature, 482(7383), 27-29.

By following these 3 easy steps you can get your research to be tracked in Altmetric Explorer.

1. Deposit your research and other outputs:
   • Before your research and other outputs can be tracked by Altmetrics Explorer they must be captured in the University's research outputs management system, Elements.
   • If your research output has no identifier (eg a DOI), you need to deposit it into Minerva Access or Melbourne Figshare. This generates a persistent link for your research output.
     NOTE: Check to see if your research output is already mentioned by switching to the Full Altmetric database.
      
2. Mention specific research outputs:
   • When you tweet, blog, Facebook, etc, aim to mention specific articles and other research outputs - it’s the research output itself that is tracked by Altmetric Explorer.
      
3. Include a direct link:
   • To be tracked by Altmetric Explorer it is best to include a direct link to the research output using a unique identifier (this can be adapted using a link shortener like bitly). These identifiers include any form of DOI, Minerva Access handle, PubMed ID, ISBN, or link to the publisher site.
   • You can mint a unique DOI by depositing your outputs in Melbourne Figshare.