Aleksandra Lazić, PhD4d ago

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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Show threadChris Walter
@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.
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Show threadAleksandra Lazić, PhD4d 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, PhD4d ago
@ChrisWalter LinkedIn isn't tracked by Altmetric either, but yeah, a lot of social sciences and humanities researchers are sharing their work there!