The PlumX Suite provides comprehensive metrics and analytics to measure the impact of research. It captures metrics from a wide range of sources beyond traditional citations to provide insight into impact across 5 categories - usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations. This allows institutions to understand the broader impact of their research beyond publications and in a time frame less than the traditional 3-5 years it takes to see citations. PlumX helps researchers showcase their impact more fully to support activities like grant applications.

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The PlumX Suite
Tiaan Scholtz
Regional Sales Manager
tscholtz@ebsco.com

2. Answer the questions
And tell the stories
About your research

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The PlumX Suite
PlumX Metrics
Get more value from your institutional repository.
PlumX Dashboards
Know what is going on with your research. Without waiting years.
PlumX +Grants
Gain insight about your grants.
PlumX Benchmarks
See how you compare. Now.
PlumX Funding Opportunities
Find the right funding opportunities.

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PlumX can help answer these questions
you couldn’t answer before
What impact has our research had in the past
12 months?
How do we arm our researchers to better
compete for funding?
Can we measure non-STEM,
non-article research?

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Journal citations are the traditional form of
Scholarly Measure
5
Journal
Impact Factor
3.161

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2-5
years
Idea
Blog Post
?
years
Grant
Conference
3-5
years
Video
Citations
Metrics timeline:
From Idea to Impact
It can take at least 2 - 5 years
from idea to a published
peer-reviewed journal article
Before PlumX After PlumX
Due to the pace of scholarly
publishing, it takes another 3 - 5
years from the time the work is
published to get to critical mass
of citation counts
From idea to measurable
citation counts can take
5 - 10 years
Metrics
available
immediately
citation counts
presentation view
share
save reference
bookmark
PDF download
click
video play
dataset download
citation counts
tweet
Publication

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Samples of PlumX Metrics Sources
• Amazon
• Bit.ly
• CrossRef
• Delicious
• Dryad
• dSpace
• EBSCO
• ePrints
• Facebook
• figshare
• Github
• Goodreads
• Google+
• Medwave
• Mendeley
• PLOS
• PubMed Central
• Reddit
• Research
Blogging
• Scopus
• SlideShare
• SourceForge
• Stack Overflow
• Twitter
• USPTO
• Vimeo
• Wikipedia
• Worldcat (OCLC)
• YouTube

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All Types of Research Artifacts
• Articles
• Blog posts
• Book chapters
• Books
• Cases
• Clinical Trials
• Conference
Papers
• Data Sets
• Figures
• Grants
• Interviews
• Letters
• Media
• Patents
• Posters
• Presentations
• Reports
• Source Code
• Theses /
Dissertations
• Videos
• Web Pages

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Metrics
Categories
USAGE
(clicks, downloads, views,
library holdings, video plays)
CAPTURES
(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,
readers, watchers)
MENTIONS
(blog posts, comments, reviews,
Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL MEDIA
(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
CITATIONS
(PubMed Central, Scopus,
patents)

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Article level
metrics are the
building blocks
for PlumX
5 Categories in Action –
Example Article

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Visualizing Impact: Plum Print
• Includes the 5
categories of metrics
• Circles dynamically
change size based
on metrics in each
category

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Each Plum Print
looks different
depending on the
metrics for the
artifact
At-a-glance insight
into relative impact
Embed Plum Prints
into your Institutional
Repository

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How does ORCID fit in?

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Researchers Need to
Showcase their Impact
• Give them 5 categories of metrics to
tell their stories
– Not just a single count with citations
• Tell the stories of research earlier
– Citation counts take 3-5 years to accrue
– PlumX gives comprehensive metrics in the first year
• Help them create better grant applications

15. Thank You
tscholtz@ebsco.com
+27 72 987 7247
Tiaan Scholtz
Find out more information at:
http://www.plumanalytics.com