What is Altmetric?
Thousands of conversations about scholarly content happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping the user to monitor and report on the attention surrounding research work. A single research output may live on multiple websites and can be talked about across dozens of different platforms. Altmetric work behind the scenes, collecting and collating all of this disparate information to provide a single, informative view of the online activity surrounding scholarly content.