Altmetric will no longer participate in FIFA matches. You will guaranteed not see us appear in ANY professional football fixtures going forward. We stand in solidarity with all the other really famous and capable football teams. #footmetric www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through

Uefa says "the World Cup is not for sale" after its 55 member associations vote to boycott future tournaments if Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, do not back down on their investment proposal...

bbc.co.uk

Discover one of the top-performing PNAS Nexus articles on Altmetric from the past 3 months! 🐘 Functional anisotropy of the elephant trunk skin by Preti et al. earned a score of 69, fueled by strong media attention. Read more: https://ow.ly/IE7Z50ZtVUe

The only time I ever went viral on social media was with a meta-analysis on the beneficial effects of touch on our health that Julian Packheiser and I led together 💚 Look at that @altmetric.com score though 😍 Read it: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #openscience #metascience #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

💥 Open Science Festival 2027 Bamberg call for abstracts is out! This is a great event, we will very likely be there.

Open Science Festival@osfestivalde.bsky.social · 2w ago

Der Call for Proposals für das Open Science Festival 2027 in Bamberg ist geöffnet! Gesucht werden Lightning Talks, Workshops, Poster, Projekt-Showcases und Beiträge für den Toolmarktplatz. www.uni-bamberg.de/osfestival20... #OSfestival2027 #openscience

Limitations: the counts extracted do not discern between the type of account (institutional, scientist, etc.) or uniqueness. Interesting blog post from last year relevant to the discussion where Altmetric inquired about the status of science on X and Bluesky, www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...

Bluesky’s ahead, but is X a dead parrot?

Altmetric has been capturing and integrating Bluesky posts since October 2024. What does the data look like now?

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Where are scientists discussing papers now: Bluesky or X? I sampled 350 recent papers that had at least one post on X or Bluesky. The median paper got 29% of its X+Bluesky attention on Bluesky. Bluesky is substantial, but X appears active. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #StatsSky

What does responsible research assessment ask of the people who build the research infrastructure, rather than those who write the policy? In a new blog post, Steven Hill (Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO, Digital Science), sets out what the principles mean in practice. 🔗 https://ow.ly/UcnT50ZqIwm

One of our top-rated articles on Altmetric this past week was published open access in Nature. You can read 'Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic storms' here: spklr.io/63320EPd7g 🧪

Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic storms - Nature

The saturation of geomagnetic activity with solar wind strength can be explained by a regression to the mean effect, suggesting that the impact of extreme geomagnetic storms can be twice as large as previously thought

spklr.io

Discover one of the top-performing PNAS Nexus articles on Altmetric over the past three months! “Demographic processes constrain global growth in gender egalitarianism” by Akaliyski et al. has an Altmetric score of 112, driving strong media attention: https://ow.ly/aoMM50Zo9E4

📈 Alternative Metrics in Scholarly Publishing: Signals, Strategy, and Responsible Use 📅 July 23, 2026 | 11:00 am- 12:00pm ET ✨ Registration and More Information: cse.memberclicks.net/altmed#/ #Altmetrics #ResearchImpact #ScholarlyPublishing

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.

Json Momoa@jotatx.eurosky.social · 3w ago

I'll just drop for no reason the link for a research agency named FAPESP, real research there. I'll suggest the good folks at @altmetric.com to put them on their radar. agencia.fapesp.br

Are you tracking altmetrics for your journals or considering it? We explored the latest ways to leverage @altmetric.com data during a recent webinar featuring @kowb.bsky.social, Director of Scientometric Researcher Engagement at @digital-science.com. Catch the recording: buff.ly/6aZwJfp

We're excited to share with you the latest Nextgov/FCW cover story – featuring a Q&A with our President, Stephen Leicht. He discusses the key issues facing government research today, including #AI, growing data volumes, #ResearchSecurity, and more. 🔗 See his interview: https://ow.ly/Yynz50ZneX6

European Journal of Applied Mathematics' Key Metrics from 2025: 📈 View journal metrics: https://cup.org/3SW16Ry 📚 Read the most cited articles: https://cup.org/4w0nmIO

As someone in the midst of hiring, I do really appreciate when someone uses CRediT author taxonomy. When the Author Contributions section says "X, Y, Z, performed experiments" in a paper with like... 7 figures spanning all kinds of experiments... please use CRediT! Low-key: I'm hiring. Email me!

Crossref@crossref.bsky.social · 3w ago

Think about the last paper you wrote 🤔 how many different roles were involved? And how many different roles did one contributor 🧑‍💻 take on? Explore how we've built multiple contributor roles and support for CRediT in Schema 5.5 🔗https://doi.org/10.64000/6xx3c-nmp80 #CrossrefUpdate #Schema55

Gamers! Share a GIF of one of your favorite childhood games!

Dare 🔥@darius1c.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gamers! Share a GIF of one of your favorite childhood games!

📣 Expert viewpoint: "Citation beyond the numbers." Bob Schijvenaars explains why understanding context is the next frontier in #ResearchIntegrity - and the challenge of addressing excessive or unjustified self-citations. 🔗 Read his Research Information piece: https://ow.ly/Wzii50ZmSJR Dimensions

Citation beyond the numbers - Research Information

Bob Schijvenaars, senior vice president technology at Dimensions, on why understanding context is the next frontier in research integrity

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Happy Friday, Bluesky. youtu.be/yd62VMHiijI?...

The Rolling Stones - Rough And Twisted (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by The Rolling Stones

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Thanks for the kind words, but equal (if not greater) credit goes to @benpatrickwill.bsky.social for helping us by identifying the AI slop to begin with. Highly recommended read - particularly for the unbelievably disgraceful use of GenAI faces. nobreakthroughs.com/the-scientis...

The Scientists That Don't Exist

Ghostly websites publishing science press releases are filling up with AI-generated content — and the ghosts of scientists that don't exist.

nobreakthroughs.com

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 4mo ago

Thanks again @benpatrickwill.bsky.social - we owe you an update. Scienmag and Bioengineer have been removed from the Altmetric dataset. AI has a role to play in the world, but AI-journalism slop, concealed or not, is not it. New attention page: www.altmetric.com/details/1845...

Next week at ACFE's Global Fraud Conference, we'll show how connected research intelligence helps investigators spot emerging tech, research trends, and collaboration networks tied to financial crime. 🗓️ July 12th - 17th 📍Boston 👋 Booth 309 #ACFE #FraudInvestigation #ResearchIntelligence

Social media makes the anti science, anti vax crowd seem much larger than it is. Surveys show it’s actually a very small share of the public greatly outnumbered by science believers. My new column: on.kff.org/4wthpni

Americans May Be Smarter About Vaccines Than You Think

In a new column that analyzes recent KFF polling, Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman concludes that only a sliver of the public hold definitive anti-science, anti-vaccine views, and are greatl...

on.kff.org

🔝🔟 ‘Top 10 Most Interesting Medical Publications’ of 2025: A study by UCD Professor Carel le Roux, comparing two of the world's leading obesity treatments, has been recognised by Altmetric as one of the ‘Top 10 Most Interesting Medical Publications’ of 2025. @ucdmedicine.bsky.social @altmetric.com

💯 Discover Aging publications with an @altmetric.com Attention Score above 100: www.aging-us.com/news_room/al... #openaccess #researchpapers #aging #longevity #healthspan #lifespan #lifestyle #peerreviewed #journalpublication

Peer-Reviewed Aging Research Journal | Aging

Aging-US is a primarily aging-focused, peer-reviewed, open-access journal.

aging-us.com

<BBC Announcer Voice> In July Altmetric added to its coverage of research mentions within Clinical Guidelines. 1,900 new guidelines from new and existing sources have been added, which adds 162k new citations research. Here's Tom with the weather updates.altmetric.com/announcement...

Enhancing our clinical guidelines coverage - July 2026

Altmetric curates a broad scope of clinical guidelines from organisations around the world, across a wide range of therapeutic areas.

updates.altmetric.com

Mandatory post about not coming to work because of the football I mean I have a cold.

One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. You can reach 'Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Hours-Long Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel' open access here: spklr.io/63320EOUFk

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Hours-Long Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel - Nature Communications

A wearable diving suit enables terrestrial cyborg cockroaches to maintain respiration and locomotion underwater for up to 3 hours. This biohybrid system facilitates sustained exploration through hybrid hazardous terrains, serving as an amphibious robot.

spklr.io

Me: “When I’m editing our CEO’s profile to rename him from Daniel Hook to “Jimothy The Body Chalemet” do I hit save or the submit button? Legal: “Wait what?” Me: “What?” updates.dimensions.ai/announcement...

Introducing researcher profile edits

The researcher profiles you rely on are now easier to keep accurate. You can now suggest edits to any researcher profile, your own or your team's, so the...

updates.dimensions.ai

Nice explainer! Although ironically it wouldn’t count towards the article’s own altmetric attention without a link. osf.io/preprints/so... FYI @herrison2000.bsky.social

José Luis Ortega@joseluisortega.bsky.social · last mo.

"The role of altmetrics in citation emergence: a temporal approach" is our new preprint available in @socarxiv.bsky.social. Tracking the appearance of altmetric through the time, we have found that social media trigger the appearance of citations and shorten the time it takes for them to occur.

AI infrastructure is building better aqueducts for science. But aqueducts don't make water clean – they just move it faster. In this post, Dr Leslie McIntosh looks at what MCP pipelines mean for #ResearchIntegrity and why provenance is a key part of that conversation. 🔗 https://ow.ly/4TWp50ZjAKw