Altmetric Alternatives

If you're looking for a different Altmetric, Elicit is a good option. Elicit is an AI research assistant that can help you speed up literature reviews, find new papers and automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses. It's geared for empirical subjects like biomedicine and machine learning, with the ability to extract data into formatted tables and to spot themes and concepts. With its language models trained on user feedback and task-specific prompts, Elicit can help you keep up with the latest research without getting bogged down.

Another good option is Semantic Scholar, a free AI-powered research service that indexes more than 219 million papers in all scientific fields. It's got a powerful search with lots of filters, brief summaries to help you evaluate papers, and tools to cite papers, create and share folders. You can also get paper recommendations based on your interests and track research activity with a dedicated dashboard.

For those who want to dig into citations and evidence, Scite offers Smart Citations that add context and categorization to evidence. The service can be used by researchers, universities, companies and publishers to track insights and manage articles with customizable dashboards. Scite's database of more than 1.2 billion citation statements can be used to check references and journal metrics, and it can help you optimize your research.

Last, TrendMD is designed to help scholarly content providers get more engagement and readers. It uses collaborative filtering algorithms to recommend content based on user behavior, and it's partnered with more than 300 scholarly publishers to reach 100 million unique monthly visitors. It's free, with optional budgeting and revenue auto-reinvesting, and it can be integrated with Google Analytics for tracking performance.