Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

Until @altmetric.com starts tracking research output on Mastodon like it does on Bluesky, you're probably not going to see a big migration of researchers here. Just sayin'.

Then again, Altmetric doesn't track LinkedIn either, and on some days it feels like the most functional space for academics out of the three. 🤔

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Mar 21 at 9:50amWeb
Show threadMiguel Correa4d ago
@alelazic @altmetric.com LinkedIn does seem to be the main platform for academics now and where research papers get most engagement, which is very unfortunate because LinkedIn makes you lose sanity points.
Show threadAleksandra Lazić, PhD4d ago
@m_correa_m Oh I agree, engagement is one of the key factors. I was surprised to see Academic LinkedIn become a thing though. Back when Academic Twitter was still alive, LinkedIn felt very much like an industry-only space. When I ditched X, I started posting there more too… but it still feels a bit surreal.
Show threadOliver Brendel23h ago
@m_correa_m @alelazic @altmetric.com must depend on your viewpoint : I have always refused to be on linkedin, and I have always considered it rsther as a job marked and not for paper publicity. In my research environment, I don't know anybody who puts their output on Linkedin. However, I get much publicity from Researchgate, with several reads per week (additional to citation counts).
Show threadAleksandra Lazić, PhD19h ago
@olibrendel @m_correa_m @altmetric.com I personally dislike ResearchGate and Academia and similar such places (although I have a profile on the former). Many in my field post and engage with research on LinkedIn; a very lively academic community of psychology researchers has formed there as well as on Bluesky (as opposed to Mastodon, unfortunately).
Show threadChris Walter3d ago
@alelazic @altmetric.com That’s very interesting. I guess it just goes to show how different various fields are. I’ve never even heard of altmetric and in physics there is no way people would be considering linkedin for paper reach.
Show threadAleksandra Lazić, PhD3d ago
@ChrisWalter That's a great point, thanks for sharing! I should have clarified that my impressions come from being in social sciences/psychology. I haven't really stopped to think about how perceptions of Altmetric might differ across disciplines. Since they track all research, when they publish reports like this one on sharing across platforms (Bluesky vs X: https://bsky.app/profile/altmetric.com/post/3mgaoicifqs24), they don't seem to break it down by discipline, and I imagine that's not easy to do either.
Altmetric (@altmetric.com)

Since we have 2 months of 2026 data now, we can see if the trend we saw last year holds up: does research from the current year get shared more on Bluesky or X-Twitter? As you can see here, we still see days regularly where Bluesky's volume of research sharing is markedly higher than Twitter. 1/9

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Show threadAleksandra Lazić, PhD3d ago
@ChrisWalter LinkedIn isn't tracked by Altmetric either, but yeah, a lot of social sciences and humanities researchers are sharing their work there!
Show threadOliver Brendel23h ago
@alelazic @altmetric.com and how can we push altmetric.com to consider Mastodon ?
Sending massively requests for this to their email address ?
How does this work on the API side ? Could some #Mastodon programmers propose them how to do this ? Would this need searching for doi's ? Which would be only possible on #MastodonServers allowing full text search ?
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Show threadDavid Weir22h ago

@olibrendel And hopefully there will be an opt-out mechanism…

@alelazic @altmetric.com

Show threadAleksandra Lazić, PhD19h ago
@davidjamesweir @olibrendel @altmetric.com As far as I'm informed from discussions on Bluesky, Altmetric worked (is working?) on tracking Mastodon but there are "technical incompatibilities" (they even referred to it as their "white whale"). I don't think it's about the lack of demand. You could consider emailing them to learn more.