# Altmetric

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/altmetric-com/  
**Website:** https://www.altmetric.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Altmetric provides tools that track and analyze online attention markers to published research, helping scholars, institutions, and funders understand the impact and reach of their work across news outlets, social media, policy documents, and more. By aggregating mentions from a wide range of sources, Altmetric enables users to see where research is making a difference and to showcase its influence in the digital world.

## Kin Score — 29.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-9.4 from 38.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.1 |
| Contract Quality | 24.8 |
| Contract Governance | 35.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Access Clarity | 17.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 26.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | paginated |
| Operation Distinctiveness | no |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **Altmetric API** — API for accessing Altmetric data such as metrics, details pages, and badges.
- **Altmetric API** — Altmetric API as documented publicly: 7 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-01); not the provider's own document.

## Security (2)

- **Altmetric Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Altmetric Com Vulnerability Disclosure** — no policy recorded

## Tags

Research, Metrics, Analytics, Scholarly Communication, Altmetrics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/altmetric-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.