Reading a paper and want to find out its Altmetric details? Install our free bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Simply drag the button below to your bookmarks bar, navigate to a journal article page, and hit "Altmetric it!"
More details on how to get started
To install the Bookmarklet, just drag it into your browser's bookmark bar - this is typically underneath the address bar.
Altmetric it ← Drag this to your bookmarks bar
All set? Great, take it for a spin! Here are some example articles to try it out on. Just visit them, then click on the "Altmetric it" bookmark you just added:
- The Toxic Truth about Sugar (Nature)
- Physical activity for cancer survivors: meta-analysis (BMJ)
- Effect of a vitamin/mineral supplement on children and adults with autism (BMC Pediatrics)
See the Bookmarklet in action
Troubleshooting
Nothing happening when you drag the link? Confusingly, Chrome will let you drag the bookmarklet to the area where the icons for your extensions appear (to the right of the address box). This isn't the bookmarks bar, which is normally underneath the address box and may be turned off by default. To fix this, go to the View menu and select "Always Show Bookmarks Bar".
If you can't see a bookmark bar on Firefox, go to the View -> Toolbars menu and check Bookmarks Toolbar.
Need more help? Check out our FAQ page about the bookmarklet.
The small print
Caveats! We have them. When we said any paper, we may have been exaggerating. We're working up to that, but right now:
- The Bookmarklet only works on PubMed, arXiv or pages containing a DOI
- It only supports publishers who embed Google Scholar friendly citation metadata on their pages by default, though we're adding support for others. You can hurry along support for a particular journal by asking @altmetric for it on Twitter
- Twitter mentions are only available for articles published since July 2011
- If Altmetric started supporting a publisher after July 2011 then Twitter mentions are only available from that date onwards
Any other questions?
If you're wondering what the number in the middle is, why you see 'journal not supported' or how the data is collected then check out the FAQ on our support site or drop us a line at support@altmetric.com.