#altmetrics
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #altmetrics from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #altmetrics
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:12 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:12 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #altmetrics.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:12 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~19667 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (32) · German (5) · French (2) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.1
Top of the latest posts
Today I’m at the BRIC conference in #Edmonton https://bric-conference.ca/. I heard a question about Twitter and altmetrics. What could we do to capture altmetrics in the #fediverse? I didn’t have an answer. Is there an answer? @evan #scholc
#Altmetric (@altmetric) has long tracked #Twitter mentions and now tracks #Bluesky mentions. https://www.digital-science.com/news/altmetric-adds-bluesky-social-media-as-a-research-attention-source/ Does anyone know whether it tracks #Mastod
Yesterday Digital Science's #Altmetric has added #Bluesky as a new attention source for published research outputs. However, #Mastodon is not in the list of sources, and #Twitter / #X is still there... https://www.digital-science.com/news/a
What “altmetrics” means
WikipediaIn scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are non-traditional bibliometrics proposed as an alternative or complement to more traditional citation impact metrics, such as impact factor and h-index. The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the #altmetrics hashtag. Although altmetrics are often thought of as metrics about articles, they can be applied to people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source cod
“Altmetrics” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#altmetrics across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #altmetrics straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/altmetrics