What is Altmetrics & what is the UMCG Altmetric project?
The UMCG and Altmetric
Altmetrics can be a valuable and additional tool to monitor and report on the attention surrounding your research. The Central Medical Library has launched an Altmetrics project in collaboration with researchers and other stakeholders in the UMCG to raise awareness about changing communication (and its importance) within science.

The data in the UMCG Altmetrics Dashboard comes from the University of Groningen research database 'Pure'. Pure includes all UMCG publications from research institutes, research programs and researchers.
The Altmetric dashboard adds additional statistics to these publications, such as the number of tweets, blogs, news posts, post peer reviews or policy documents that mention a publication, anywhere in the world.
Researchers can use the UMCG Altmetric Dashboard to:
- find out what is being said about your publication on the web, by whom and how often
- discover which policies (worldwide) refer to your publication(s)
- better understand the social relevance of scientific research; also at the level of research institutes and programs
How can I use it?
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UPDATE: In 2023 the UMCG instance of Altmetric will be only available via de University of Groningen Instance. Existing accounts and saved searched should have been imported into the University of Groningen Altmetric instance.
For help & info: contact Guus van den Brekel or Robin Ottjes of the CMB, UMCG -
To access the Altmetric dashboard, simply go to: https://www.altmetric.com/explorer/login from an UMCG desktop or via toegang.umcg.nl
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Use Continue as a GUEST, if you don't want to create an account
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Use Create an account, if you want be able to create your own reports and alerts. Use your either your UMCG email address ór your UG email address.
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- You will get personal access to the Altmetric Dashboard.
It contains all tracked "mentions" from a lot of sources on the web related to your publications that are already out there for everybody to see, but in this dashboard they are all aggregated together:- by author
- by the 5 Research Institutes and Programmes of the UMCG
Altmetric Reports UMCG
Watch these Altmetric Reports about the UMCG, it's 5 research institutes and all research programms:
(reports are based on research output in the UMCG Pure repository and are renewed on a daily bases)
Want your own? Or want to know more? Contact Guus van den Brekel at CMB UMCG!
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UMCG overall
- Cancer Research Center Groningen (CRCG)
- Groningen University Institute for Drug Exploration (GUIDE)
- Biopharmaceuticals, Discovery, Design and Delivery (BDDD)
- Cardiovascular Centre (CVC)
- Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM)
- Critical care, Anesthesiology, Peri-operative and Emergency medicine (CAPE)
- Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI)
- Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT)
- Groningen Kidney Center (GKC)
- Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC)
- Lifestyle Medicine (LM)
- Medicinal Chemistry and Bioanalysis (MCB)
- Microbes in Health and Disease (MHD)
- Real World Studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics and -Therapy (PEGET)
- Translational Immunology Groningen (TRIGR)
- Vascular Ageing Programme (VAP)
- W.J. Kolff Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science
- Research Institute for Neurosciences and Healthy Ageing (BCN-BRAIN)
- Abnormal Neurological Development; Early Diagnosis and Intervention (ANDDI)
- Center for Medical Imaging (CMI)
- Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE)
- Molecular Neuroscience and Ageing Research (MOLAR)
- Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN)
- Translational Neuroscience (TN)
- Science in Healthy Ageing & healthcaRE (SHARE)
- Ethical, Legal, Social Issues in Genetics (ELSI)
- Extremities Pain and Disability (EXPAND)
- Health Psychology Research (HPR)
- Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE)
- Life Course Epidemiology (LCE)
- Methods in Medicines evaluation & Outcomes research (M2O)
- Public Health Research (PHR)
- Reproductive Origins of Adult Health and Disease (ROAHD)
- SMART Movements (SMART)
- Value, Affordability and Sustainability (VALUE)
Other UMCG Altmetric reports (on demand)
Want your own Report? Or want to know more? Contact Guus van den Brekel at CMB UMCG!
Who is talking about your research?
- UMCG Altmetric projectNote: this link only works on a UMCG pc or via WOM
Use the Research Toolbox to register your research project and to identify the procedures you should follow. - PURE start pageAdd your publications to your profile page
Video Altmetric & UMCG
Guus van den Brekel of the UMCG Central Medical Library talked about Altmetrics at a Meet & Learn meeting in the UMCG:
Contact

Pure issues: pure@umcg.nl
Open Access issues: openaccess@umcg.nl
Reference management issues: refman@umcg.nl