"Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments."
Priem J, Groth P, Taraborelli D. The altmetrics collection. PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e48753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048753. Epub 2012 Nov 1. PMID: 23133655; PMCID: PMC3486795.
AKA social influmetrics (Rousseau and Ye 2013); social media metrics (Haustein, Costas, and Lariviere 2015)
Altmetric Explorer monitors, searches, and measures X messages, news stories, blog posts, patents, grants and other sites that mention scholarly research done at GUMC and elsewhere. Altmetric Explorer data can be used in addition to traditional research metrics to present a well-rounded picture of individual or community research impact.