Altmetric Explorer

Altmetric Explorer is a Digital Science product that tracks attention to or mentions of research outputs with an identifier (such as a DOI, ISBN, etc) in mainstream media, social media, policy, and other sources. It is an accompaniment to traditional metrics and other measures of impact and engagement. (QUT staff and students only). 

Items are given an attention score which appears in a circle or donut. The colours of the donut reflect the different kind of attention. You can learn more about the altmetric attention score calculation, and the donut colours here.

Searching Altmetric Explorer

The best way to get a full picture of attention to an author’s research outputs is to search Altmetric Explorer by ORCID iD or a list of identifiers, for example DOIs.

1. Login to Altmetric Explorer. 
2. This will allow you to save searches and generate reports.
3. Click on ‘EDIT SEARCH’.Select ‘Full Altmetric database’

Search using ORCID iD

1. Scroll down to the ORCID search box. 
2. Enter the author's ORCID iD.  It is only possible to search by one ORCID at a time. 
3. Click on ‘RUN SEARCH’.

Search using scholarly identifiers (e.g. DOI)

1. Scroll down to the 'Scholarly Identifiers' box.
2. Copy and paste up to 25,000 scholarly identifiers, one on each line. Scholarly identifiers can include: DOIs, ISBNs, PubMed IDs, arXiv IDs, URNs, and URLs.  
3. Click on 'Save'
4. Click on 'RUN SEARCH'

Searching using verified QUT data

Searching using the verified data fields in Altmetric Explorer has several limitations.  The publication data is updated quarterly, and only covers that last 10 years, as it is drawn from the Research Achievement Database (RAD).

Search for verified author/s

1. Type the name of the researcher into the ‘VERIFIED AUTHOR’ search box.  Their name should appear. 
2. Click on the author’s names to add them to the search.  You can select multiple authors.
3. Click on ‘RUN SEARCH’.

Search for a verified department

1. Type the name of the Faculty/School/Department into the ‘VERIFIED DEPARTMENT’ search box. The department names should appear.  Click on the names to add them to the search. 
2. Click on ‘RUN SEARCH’.

You can find more information about the Advanced Search features from Altmetric Explorer

Export results

1. Click on the ‘EXPORT THIS TAB’ button.  The data in Altmetric Explorer can be exported as .csv file from any tab apart from the ‘HIGHLIGHTS’ tab.
2. Select the format you would like to export the results in.

Save searches and generate reports

1. Click on the ‘SAVE SEARCH’ button on the right side of the page.  This will save your search.
2. Click on the  button on the left side of the page to access your saved searches.
3. To generate a report click on the page icon in the ‘SHAREABLE REPORT’ column.
4. You can edit and export these reports, as well as share them via email.

This short video from QUT will show you how to use Altmetric Explorer. Login required.

QUT Media Hub - Finding Metrics: Getting started with Altmetric Explorer

To search using a list of DOIs (digital object identifiers), see the instructions here.