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Altmetric is the company blog at altmetric.com, writing about science and data. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “The top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments cite an Altmetric blog post on the 2012 origin of a hashtag used to share paywalled academic papers, as a source. The other comments do not discuss the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Altmetric tracks and analyzes online attention markers to published research to see where research is making a difference.
Most-linked posts?
- The top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 20162 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Altmetric ( https://altmetric.com ) | Software Developer | London, UK | Full time | Onsite Thousands of conversations about scholarly content and scientific research happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping authors, publishers, editors, funders & researchers monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work they care about. As part of our devel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019 as a story · 74 points
HN discussionAltmetric ( https://altmetric.com ) | Software Developer | London, UK | Full time | Onsite or remote Thousands of conversations about scholarly content and scientific research happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping authors, publishers, editors, funders & researchers monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work they care about. As part of…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted What academic research caught the public imagination in 2015 as a story · 27 points
HN discussionAltmetric ( https://altmetric.com ) | Software Developer | London, UK | Full time | Onsite Thousands of conversations about scholarly content and scientific research happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping authors, publishers, editors, funders & researchers monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work they care about. As part of our devel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Which academic research caught the public imagination in 2014? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionAltmetric – London, UK – Full-time, ONSITE, VISA http://www.altmetric.com Our mission is to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature. We’re looking for a full-time software developer to join our team in London working on our products for researchers, institutions and scholarly publishers. We care about quality and delivering software of value above all; that means not only building things ri…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted The top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere are a lot of possible solutions that scientific community (Early Career Researchers) is working on. Open Science : There is a growing movement by ECRs to publish Journals that are open access or atleast offer the option to do so with slightly extra costs. This helps to dismantle the centralized consortia of publishing groups that have become too powerful. Open review: There are journals that allow the reviewer…
Comment linking /about-altmetrics/what-are-altmetrics/
on “Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences”Submitted Most Talked About Scientific Articles of 2013 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAltmetric ( https://altmetric.com ) | Software Developer | London, UK | Full time | Onsite Thousands of conversations about scholarly content and scientific research happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping authors, publishers, editors, funders & researchers monitor and report on the attention surrounding the work they care about. As part of our devel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Top 100 research articles of 2016 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAltmetric - London UK, full-time, front-end developer Our mission is to track and analyse the online activity around scholarly literature. Every day, thousands of scholarly papers are being discovered, discussed and shared, and Altmetric tracks what people are saying about these papers online on behalf of publishers, authors, libraries and institutions. We’re looking for a full-time front-end developer to join our t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)”Submitted PLoS Impact Explorer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAltmetric | Web and UI developers | London, UK | Onsite or remote | Full time Thousands of conversations about scholarly content and scientific research happen online every day. Altmetric tracks a range of sources to capture and collate this activity, helping authors, publishers, editors, funders and researchers monitor and report on the attention surrounding the research they care about. As part of our development…
Comment linking /jobs/ui-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2017 – According to Altmetric as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI (and others [edit just want to emphasise that I was part of a team, reading this back later sounded like I was saying a few people chipped in rather than a whole team all worked on it full time]) built GRID: https://grid.ac Each page is machine readable: https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.5335.0 -> https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.5335.0.json (other formats work too, like nt for triples, and accept headers can be used…
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on “A list of public JSON APIs for use in web development”Submitted The top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn one hand, it does make a lot of sense that many web publishers want to keep people from scraping content, given the way that it's often used nefariously, to violate copyright, or for spam purposes. But there are totally legitimate reasons to scrape as well. Altmetric ( https://www.altmetric.com ), which is the company I work for, tracks links to scientific research. So when someone on e.g. Twitter links to a page…
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on “Bypassing website anti-scraping protections”Submitted Twitter and the Changing Research Conversation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe hashtag seems to have originated in 2012: http://www.altmetric.com/blog/interactions-the-numbers-behin...
Comment linking /blog/interactions-the-numbers-behind-icanhazpdf/
on “Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter”Submitted Twitter and the Changing Research Conversation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMek, this is great. Thanks for sharing & open-sourcing it. I love the idea of bringing together paper discussions online - whether post-publication peer review like f1000research.com or more casual discussion like r/science. One challenge I've found is that it's often difficult for discussion sites to gain sufficient traction to build a critical mass of discussion - http://plasmyd.com , http://papercritic.com , http…
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on “OpenJournal - Discuss academic papers (open source)”Submitted Twitter and the Changing Research Conversation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI assume that the goal here is to reduce the number of not-actually-valid results that get published. Not-actually-valid results happen for lots of reasons (whoops did experiment wrong, mystery impurity, cherry picked data, not enough subjects, straight-up lie, full verification expensive and time consuming but this looks promising) but often there's a common set of incentives: you must publish to get tenure/keep yo…
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on “Replace Peer Review with “Peer Replication” (2021)”Submitted Altmetric 100 (Most Discussed and Shared Scientific Research of 2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2017 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Altmetric now tracks Wikipedia references to research papers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analysing Attention (Medical articles receive disproportionate attention) as a story · 1 points
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