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We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts. Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
5 (again.) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Switzerland) Our favourite kind of source because it's citing articles that have not been in any other source such and news or blogs. That makes a policy citation even more valuable.
1. Open Society Foundations (US). Founded by George Soros, their roughly 400 document archive cites nearly 3,000 pieces of research.
The original article is associated with VITO (you are the author! IS THIS GAMING THE METRICS LUC?) Cool thing to point out, hadn't noticed that quirk around The Conversation myself yet.
Update - yes that's what it was. Articles in The Conversation don't have readily available affiliation fields in their metadata like many publishers do. So this item has no affiliations linked at all:
We will immediately pivot away from our well-known established football careers into measuring academic research engagement on the World Wide Web instead. You heard it here first.
Being able to begin with a funder (or a specific grant) and then find societal re-use is a shortcut to grant effectiveness measurement that fully outpaces what funders know about their own grant performance. Researchers stop reporting to funders what the grant did eventually. We never stop hunting.
One thing we don't talk about enough (too busy meme-ing) is how Altmetric tracks funders. We inherit funder information (including what articles were funded by a grant) from the fulltext monitoring that @dimensions.ai does. So we have this funder and around 100,000 publications they supported.
The new James Bond game is deeply unrealistic because it consistently shows really great air conditioning systems in UK buildings. Stay cool out there everyone!
Didn't know about that cool tool! Warming Stripes for United Kingdom, 1884-2025.
THREAD New policy organisations we are tracking, needlessly interspersed with real but useless facts. Come to find out where your research is used by these orgs, but stay for the "fully cooked" facts we have in store. Let's go. 1/14
This still occupies the top articles as you point out (number 2 all time.) Fascinatingly the sentiment is largely positive (that’s tone of conversation, not necessarily attitude to the publication).
Wow the combined follower count on @bsky.app is three times higher than Twitter for this too. And it was picked up earlier and faster here than on Twitter. Here's the overall narrative on the dissemination we've seen so far. @watershedlab.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/e...
This cognitive rewiring brought about by JUST a shift in perspective is likely one of the evolutionary gifts humanity has inherited. We have to fit ton our environment. For that to be normalised, the Overview Effect needs to be endemic in human culture. And for that we need space travel. 19/20
Space travel is very likely an unavoidable, and vitally necessary, part of humanity. In addition to advancing disparate unrelated fields, it is quite simply what The Outward Urge demands of us. That's why most of humanity does cheer on the many space missions around the world. 17/20
Don't fall for the argument that money spent on space missions would be taken away from social programs and we should choose between them. You can demand both. But there's one more important reason we shouldn't abandon space as an entire field of research priority: 15/20
The infra-red in-ear thermometer, remote patient vitals sensors, robotic arms that perform previously impossible brain surgery; ALL come from humanity's quest for the stars. Canadarm, the robotic arm attached to the ISS, is even featured on Canada's money! 13/20
Hey, are YOU a fan of taking photos of your family on holiday? That smartphone camera works because of CMOS sensors, another invention of Space origin. And clean water? Count me a fan. Silver ionisation water purification is also a boon of the so-called boondoggle projects of space. 12/20
Keytruda is a vital cancer immunotherapy drug. Administration was until recently exclusively a 30-min IV infusion every 3 weeks. Merck wanted to create a subcutaneous injectable form but here on earth gravity doesn't let you grow protein crystals that fit in a needle. 10/20
Astronaut G-suits that prevent them from blacking out have been adapted into the LifeWrap garment that reduces postpartum haemorrhage deaths by 50%. Costs $1 per use. Recommended by WHO Massive impact of an unrelated research area. 70K women die from obstetric haemorrhage annually. 9/20
Let's make the same argument about F1 racing for a sec: "Just a bunch of rich athletes driving hypercars round closed tracks in upmarket locations for hours. Who cares? We should be supporting healthcare!" Except F1 did that already. 3/20
One of the common assumptions made by detractors is that the vast costs and effort we put into space travel would be better spent on making earth cleaner and more equitable. But this misses a fundamental benefit of free inquiry and research impact: knowledge transfer across domains. 2/20
THREAD The Great "Should We Even Be Going to Space" Debate One of the sizeable reactions to space missions is "We shouldn't even be going to space. Let's fix earth first. Priorities!" And when Artemis II circled the moon in April, it was no different. So today we ask: 1/20
This is quite fascinating. Retracted papers shared as misinformation will no doubt be neutrally/positively shared. So it might actually prove useful for monitoring misinformation spread. 50% of neutral to positive attention for the retracted Wakefield article is from Jan 1st 2020 onwards.
Digg is back yet again. Seems less good this time. I wonder if we would even consider this a blog. Will watch how it develops. di.gg
Would we then misspell it as "The"? Only one way to find out" hard-code this into my life