10 years ago today, our discovery paper was published in Physical Review Letters
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
It has gone on to be highly cited. But it has also had an impact outside of academia—its #Altmetric score is in the top 1000 of all papers ever
new blog: "Chemical blogs history" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/17/chemical-blogs-history.html https://doi.org/10.59350/v13h7-7av66
"Like many awesome internet phenomena, blogging started in the late nineties. Nature authors and editors recognized the effort early. In 2006 there were already more than 45 million blogs, and at least 50 science blogs made it in the top 50,000 and 5 in the top 3,500."
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Like many awesome internet phenomenu, blogging started in the late nineties. Nature authors and editors recognized the effort early. In 2006 there were already more than 45 million blogs, and at least 50 science blogs made it in the top 50,000 and 5 in the top 3,500.
THREAD The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW) If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so. Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"? 1/30
A call for broadening the altmetrics tent to democratize science outreach
@PLOSBiology
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003010
Common altmetrics indices are limited and biased in the social media that they cover. This Perspective highlights how and why altmetrics should broaden its scope to provide more reliable metrics for scientific content and communication.
@admin would you guys be interested in getting #altmetric integrated with mastodon/the fediverse?
I figure they're going to need to pick one server as a main entrypoint (or maybe a few?).
Perhaps fediscience makes the most sense, as it's (I think) the largest science-related mastodon instance. Perhaps along with a few other academic instances for other fields? (is there any kind of collaboration/coordination between academic instances?)
I guess they'd need to know that text search is enabled, and they could use the search via an API? Maybe some other things?
A first look at #Altmetric insights from #Bluesky.
https://www.altmetric.com/blog/a-first-look-at-altmetric-insights-from-bluesky/
The paper (preprint) linked to below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Are There Stars in Bluesky? A Comparative Exploratory Analysis Of Altmetric Mentions Between X and Bluesky Authors Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado Arizona State University Nicolas Robinson-Garcia University of Granada Daniel Torres-Salinas University of Granada Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.05624 Note: Also Posted on Zenodo Abstract […]
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