Altmetric

Altmetric follows online attention across news outlets, websites, blogs, social media, and more, tracking thousands of online conversations to uncover the societal impact of scholarly works.

Altmetric Sources

In HeinOnline, an Altmetric donut badge will only appear if an article includes a Digital Object Identifier, also known as a DOI, and at least 1 metric from an outside online source. The outside sources include:

Public policy documents	Post-publication peer-review platforms
Online reference managers	Patents (data from IDI Claims)
Social media (Facebook, X, Google+, etc.)	Academic and non-academic blogs
Wikipedia	Research highlights
Citations	Multimedia and other online platforms (YouTube, Reddit, etc.)
Mainstream media