Luke George

Demonstrating Impact Beyond Metrics: How Lancaster University Uses Altmetric To Support Its Researchers The first webinar in our Research Impact User Stories series. This session explores how Altmetric…

🔍 Curious about how #Altmetric can showcase #ResearchImpact beyond academia?

I'll be hosting a webinar where Nicola Wylie, Research Intelligence Manager at Lancaster University, will share how they've utilised Altmetric for reporting, impact statements, and cross-departmental engagement.

What can you do using altmetrics? How about deep meta-analyses of online interactions with scientific content and user engagement patterns.
Join the Webinar below to hear Ashraf Maleki from University of Turku share the findings of their research.

Text Box: Rise of problematic publications: The amount of disinformation moving through scientific journals and conferences has risen dramatically. PaperMills, predatory journals and the like enable the promotion of people and junk science to clog the pores of knowledge. Disinformation laundering from people, organizations, and governments pushing non-scientific agendas into scientific-looking papers. These distortions pollute the evidence-base that informs policy decisions and can undermine public trust in research. Threat of foreign interference in federally funded research: Concerns have grown over foreign governments exploiting academia to steal intellectual property and sensitive research data from government-sponsored projects, putting national security at risk. AI use and misuse in research: AI technology is powerful and multi-purpose. Without oversight, AI can and is being used by bad actors for unethical purposes like surveillance, social control, or weaponization surrounding science. This technological advancement allows for vast creations of believable profiles to media and scholarly manipulation. From: https://fosci.substack.com/p/a-reflection-on-2024

Our very own @mcintold.bsky.social of @digital-science.com rounds up the crazy year for Forensic Scientometrics that was 2024: fosci.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...

Fact-checking is not censorship.
Requesting evidence is not censorship.
Refuting falsehoods is not censorship.
Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship.
But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.

Lord Kitchener World War I Poster - "Your Altmetric Needs You"

ATTENTION (score)!

We are looking for volunteers to give us feedback in brief 1-to-1 web meetings on work we have been doing in the background on how we plan to present the Altmetric Attention Score in the future.

If you have interest in this, DM this account.

"What have the Romans ever done for us?"

🚨 NEWS: #ResearchIntegrity supporters have signed the Paris Declaration, calling for data-driven forensics - Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci - to spearhead the fight against fake science.

See comments from @mcintold.bsky.social & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr:

🔗 www.digital-science.com/news/paris-d...

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

We will soon be, umm, “sliding into your Alt Text” for links to research papers. #altmetrics

Sorry, MySpace.

Next time x

imo it's a legit scandal how much legacy social sites are suppressing link content

i think we all knew that they were doing it, but i didn't realize that news orgs & creators would get over an *order of magnitude* better engagement over here

💙 This is the one you've been waiting for! @altmetric.com has added @bsky.app as a new attention source for published research. 🙌 #SocialMedia

Altmetric is the first to track the impact of conversations about #research on Bluesky. 🦋

🔗 See our announcement: www.digital-science.com/news/altmetr...

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric. It's been 84 years meme #AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

Take note, editors

Good morning Skywalkers,

Today we look at celebs who also published research. Naturally a large chunk of the attention these items receive is related to the fame of their authors.

Hence we will be accusing every single one of these stars of gaming their Altmetric Attention Score.

Here we go
1/11

One of my favourite authors and columnists, George Monbiot, has created an interesting thread (pun intended) on why he chose BlueSky as his Twitter replacement. Those considering Threads for open discourse should first scrutinise its meddling with political content and suspensions of journalists.

Introducing Porto

I’m excited to share Porto, a tool I built to seamlessly port your archived tweets from X over to BlueSky! 🌐

Welcome, new BlueSky users! Top tip: follow Altmetric right away... because Altmetric will be following you 😱 (but only if you mention research🔬)

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

Link-Shorteners and Altmetric: A Thread

In July Google trod on everyone's dreams by ending support for its already dormant (since 2018) shortener. From August 2025 these links will all 404 apart from the shortlinks generated inside Google Maps etc.

So, what does this mean for Altmetric?

Climate injustice is Storm Trami killing 150 people in the Philippines in the same week as Shell announcing billions in Q3 profits.

Big Oil are happy to let communities suffer and die, as long as they make mountains of money.

When are they going to pay for their climate crimes?

Pharma companies are kicking off at the Biodiversity Convention COP due to the suggestion they should pay a 'tax' for capturing the genetic information from the sequencing of organisms (usually from Biodiversity hotspots). They currently are taking this profitable information for free.

Digital Science is excited to finally be here on Bluesky! 🎉 And what a week for it too! #OAWeek

Want to know more about us, our commitment to innovation & driving progress?

Why not start with our celebration of #OpenResearch.

🔗 www.digital-science.com/tldr/article...

#ResearchTransformation

Text: OA publishing is not just about unlocking accessibility; it is about democratizing knowledge and driving positive change in healthcare. It benefits everyone if study sponsors publish their clinical research articles in OA journals: it accelerates research, builds trust through transparency, and delivers vital information to patients and healthcare professionals, who might be blocked by paywalls, for better decision making. Most importantly, it connects patients to information enabling them to make informed decisions about their health.

Happy #OpenAccessWeek! Catherine Skobe of Pfizer guest authored for us on the role of Open Access in the Pharma industry and beyond. www.altmetric.com/blog/unlocki... #AcademicSky

Luke George of Digital Science presenting at a computer with a screen display on the wall, using the Altmetric Explorer to look at attention to publications from a department at the university of Lancaster.

We’re at Lancaster Uni today training on the Altmetric Explorer. Comparing attention to Open vs Closed Research. Presenter - @lukegeorge.bsky.social.

Here’s the truth about Sunak’s plans for the North Sea: he will sell out the planet to the dirti... Despite grave new warnings about the depth of the climate crisis, plutocrats are fighting to keep their profits – and our PM is with them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

There was once a widespread belief that governments would step up only when disaster struck. But it is precisely because disaster has struck that they are stepping down. As the evidence of climate breakdown becomes undeniable, the pollutocrats and their pet politicians must fight as never before.