From the shocking mortality rates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to the spread of fake news online, many of this year’s most important issues feature in the Altmetric Top 100. In this episode, we spoke to authors featured in this year’s Altmetric Top 100.The annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights research published in 2018 that has generated…

Amongst our portfolio is robotic cloud laboratory platform Transcriptic. Alongside Ginkgo Bioworks, an organism company that designs custom microbes for customers, they were recently awarded a joint $9.5 M contract as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Synergistic Discovery and Design Program (SD2). The Synergistic Discov…

A clear understanding of the attention published research has received online is now an essential part of the research process. Altmetric has offered the most reliable, functional and efficient way to monitor conversations and online citations of published research since it launched in 2012.In the latest Digital Science podcast Altmetric’s Head of …

Digital Science and Katalysis are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot project to test blockchain technologies to support the peer review process. They are joined in this pilot project by founding partner Springer Nature.In its initial phase, this initiative aims to look at practical solutions that leverage the distributed registry and smart c…

In this episode we’re talking about the 2017 Altmetric Top 100 - an annual list that showcases the most popular articles of the last 12 months based on how much attention they’ve received in the mainstream news, social media, and from other online sources. It provides a fascinating glimpse into which research has really caught the imagination of a …

Digital Science has recently released a new report detailing the potential of the blockchain for research. In this podcast, we hope to summarize our findings and also discuss what a world with blockchain technology looks like. Guests: Dr Joris Van Rossum / Jon Treadway / Eveline KlumpersYou may be aware of our catalyst grant - a twice-yearly call f…

Figshare is a company that believes in open data. Users upload content including data sets, research outputs, figures and video and images - it is free to upload and free access.Last year, they released a landmark report detailing attitudes to open data around the world. To celebrate this year’s open access week, they have released a follow up repo…