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Tracks online mentions of published research across social media, news and policy sources, and exposes them through explorer, badges and an API.

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At a glanceswept Oct 12, 2026

≈ 1.2kvisits/mo

Use not read yet · estimate, read Oct 13, 2026

  • Altmetric1.2k
  • #1 Canva70.4M
For
Publishers, academic institutions, nonprofits, researchers and corporate R&D teams tracking online attention to research
Activity
Actively maintainedsite updated 3 weeks ago
Company
Research Solutions Ltd · since 2011privacy policy · per their About page
Runs as
API
Used for
  • monitor online attention to published research
  • compile mentions from social media and news outlets
  • compare online attention across research articles
Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source
  • Used more than 84% of the 1,374 tools on its shelfINITE Atlas →
  • On the web since 2011, older than 96% of its shelfINITE Atlas
  • Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
Pricing

Price not read

Trial & discounts

The companyeach fact with its source · read Oct 17, 2026
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read Oct 16, 2026

These are Altmetric's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 16, 2026
  • MCP servercom.altmetric.mcp/altmetric-mcpverified in the MCP registry
  • Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-16
  • Address to connectmcp.altmetric.com/mcp

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Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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  • What is Altmetric?

    Tracks online mentions of published research across social media, news and policy sources, and exposes them through explorer, badges and an API. It is listed in the Atlas under Marketing and made by Research Solutions Ltd.

  • Who is Altmetric for?

    Publishers, academic institutions, nonprofits, researchers and corporate R&D teams tracking online attention to research

  • Is Altmetric still maintained?

    Actively maintained: site updated 3 weeks ago.

  • Who owns Altmetric?

    Altmetric is run by Research Solutions Ltd, per its privacy policy (2026-10-16). Digital Science owns it, per Wikidata.

  • Is Altmetric safe?

    We do not audit vendors. What Altmetric publishes, read 2026-10-16: a trust center.

  • Does Altmetric give refunds?

    In its own words (terms of service, 2026-10-16): “Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable.”

  • What are alternatives to Altmetric?

    In Marketing, by use: Nuelink, Planable, CoSchedule, Blotato, Octolens, PostPlanify.

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No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

  • Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
  • Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
  • Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
  • The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

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