A large-scale comparison of coverage and mentions captured by the two altmetric aggregators: Altmetric.com and PlumX

The increased social media attention to scholarly articles has resulted in creation of platforms & services track the transactions around them. Altmetric.com and PlumX are two such popular altmetric aggregators. Scholarly get mentions different (such as Twitter, Blog, Facebook) academic networks Mendeley, Academia ResearchGate). aggregators activity events provide coverage transaction data researchers for various purposes. Some previous studies have compared found differences captured by This paper attempts revisit question doing a large-scale analysis aggregators, set 1,785,149 publication records from Web Science. Results obtained show that tracks more sources captures larger number Altmetric.com. However, average same articles, vary across platforms, with recording higher Twitter Facebook Mendeley. article also analysed document types, subjects publishers.