Hey. It's me, talking about Bluesky, Reddit and X (now that Musk has stepped away from politics, a bit). But mostly it's the ever awesome @andytattersall.bsky.social

🌟 NEW blog post: How can #AI help uncover citation data that might otherwise be missed?

Our team has used AI to extract citation data from images of conference posters shared on social media. Their work is now published in JMIR AI. JMIR Publications

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/JURi50YpCVc

Thanks Siân - always happy to talk (hope you enjoyed the short chapter on the history, that bit was my favourite, and hardest to edit down!)

Thanks Paul, much appreciated!

Cheeky quick fix. www.draltmetrics.com

A few years ago, I jumped the gun and got the domain www.draltmetrics.com :D I need to set that up now

5/5 Bonus post. I think the history of scientific revolutions, and the application of theory are worth a read. Might even raise a chuckle. Download here tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...

4/5 Fourth. Green is rarer than Gold OA, hasn't grown, narrow disciplinery range, tends to outperform Gold. I wouldn't bother publishing in new/lower Gold journals, personal opinion. Paper in bits on dining room table. tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...

3/5 Third. For most metrics/disciplines, there is a strong "early advantage" #citation and #altmetric effect: the relatively strong performance for #OA appears in the first year, and non-OA research mostly doesn't catch up. Paper submitted tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...

2/5 Secondly, the advantages have changed significantly over the last decade, in part (but not solely) this is likely down to the %/adoption of OA. Download here. Paper in press tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...

1/5 My PhD thesis has finally been posted. I spent time looking at #altmetrics and citation rates of #openaccess vs non-oa research. There are several findings: firstly, the 'advantage' is very (very) different per discipline and metric Download here tinyurl.com/4vxvaax9 doi.org/10.23912/ope...

Beyond Retractions: Forensic Scientometrics Techniques to Identify Research Misconduct, Citation Leakage, and Funding Anomalies This paper presents a forensic scientometric case study of the Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network, a fabricated research collective that operated primarily between 2019 and 2022 while embedding i...

One of my goals for 2026 is to draft/write a novel based on forensic scientometrics, following a couple of meetings i had with people who were - i kid you not - working with 2 "security agencies" as forensic scientometricians ... anyway, some colleagues just published this - arxiv.org/abs/2602.14793

A timeline of altmetric attention showing that podcasts are slower and longer-lasting than news

Podcast mentions have a unique attention profile!

@altmetric.com launched podcast tracking last year, so I thought I'd confirm that podcasts are like news, and mostly happening in the year of publication. They're not - 50% from 2022 pubs in that year, 10% last year, so slower and longer-lasting

Just witnessed an extraordinary murmuration of starlings - not my video - 100,00s birds - and really, we don't know why these humble birds do such extraordinary things - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Frontiers | Sentiment analysis of research attention: the Altmetric proof of concept Traditional bibliometric approaches to research impact assessment have predominantly relied on citation counts, overlooking the qualitative dimensions of how...

A little while ago, we added sentiment analysis to #altmetric @altmetric.bsky.social and we (well, Carlos led and the rest of us helped...) wrote a paper on how we did it and what we did www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...

Pretty excited to be talking about podcasts and the humanities tomorrow. It's a free event, do come along and listen to me (and, ahem, everyone else...)

www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual...

I can't hear you, from sponge bob

A list of linked podcasts

A purple doughnut, associated with a chapter on Fostering a culture of growth and belonging

Over at @altmetric.com we can hear you! We just added podcasts to the data sources we track for links to academic research, and yes! This does mean a new donut colour, and yes, there are research outputs that only have podcast attention! #altmetrics

The Missing Female Homunculus Abstract. The somatosensory homunculus shows an exaggerated human figure that illustrates the proportion of the brain devoted to the sense of touch in each part of the body. Originally based on Wilder...

A conversation about biases in data led me to discover the shocking lack of data into female human sensory data, and this intriguing model that shows a hypothetical female sensory homunculus doi.org/10.1162/leon...

hyhahaha, well my thesis is now submitted, so i have some headspace to noodle in the datawebs :)

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That's just GREAT, you didn't mention my amazing podcasts with Carlos even ONCE and now I'm sulking and my dog is sulking with me

Thesis now at 56,000 words, I don't want to go beyond 60. I have a list of stuff that needs to be written. I can do this (I just can't do everything else as well 😂)

It's been nine years since I worked on Citescore, we didn't do anything about citations from retracted articles then, from memory that dataset wasn't available. Hans Zijlstra is the person who works on it now, I'd like to think that we'll see an annoucement with the next release

Frankly, if the JIFs do change, that would be a huge red-flag!

My own little "mike drop" moment. As of May 2025, new research is more likely to get attention on Bluesky than X. Me speaking at ISMPP last week #omnichannel #altmetrics #science @ismpp.bsky.social

"As of May, this month, I stand here before you and I tell you: new publications get more attention on Bluesky than X."

—Mike Taylor's drop the mic moment. @herrison2000.bsky.social speaking at ISMPP 2025 in Washington, D.C. @ismpp.bsky.social

@altmetric.com @bsky.app 🦋 #AcademicSky

Quick analysis of links to journal articles on Bluesky versus X, we find that (from May 2025 pubs) Bs is now clearly dominant, 77k to 65k. Threads as yet unknown #altmetrics #science

How many zebras are there now? An updated report on publications on rare diseases in medical literature Previously, we reported that medical literature on rare diseases was both scarce and mostly inaccessible. In this study, we evaluated changes in the past 5 years. We performed a systematic search o...

"The paucity of rare disease-related publications highlights an urgent need for increasing knowledge on rare diseases through medical literature to better serve patients, their families, and the healthcare professionals who treat them"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I should have dropped PARADIGM SHIFT and QUANTUM LEAP. But seriously, this was not meant to happen

That was an epic moment.
A Mike drop.