Appendix¶

Mention types¶

When we refer a mention type, we mean one of the following terms.

Key	Description
`blog`	Mentions of research outputs in blog posts
`bluesky`	Mentions of research outputs on Bluesky
`f1000`	Recommended research outputs on Faculty Opinions, which used to be known as F1000Prime
`fbwall`	Mentions of research outputs in public Facebook posts on Facebook Pages
`guideline`	Mentions of research outputs in Clinical Decision Guidelines
`gplus`	Mentions of research outputs on public Google Plus posts
`linkedin`	Mentions of research outputs on LinkedIn; deprecated source as of March 2014
`msm`	Mentions of research outputs in the mainstream media (news)
`patent`	Citations of research outputs in patent applications
`peer_review`	Reviews of research outputs on the public peer review platforms PubPeer and/or Publons
`pinterest`	Mentions of research outputs in Pinterest pins; deprecated source as of June 2013
`podcast`	Mentions of research outputs in podcast episodes
`policy`	Citations of research outputs in select grey literature, including government policy documents and white papers
`qna`	Mentions of research outputs in questions and answers from the StackExchange network
`rdt`	Mentions of research outputs in Reddit posts
`seminar`	Mentions of research outputs in seminars hosted on Cassyni
`syllabus`	Mentions of research outputs in syllabi from Open Syllabus Project
`tweet`	Mentions of research outputs on X
`video`	Mentions of research outputs from YouTube
`weibo`	Mentions of research outputs in the Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo; deprecated source as of July 2015
`wikipedia`	References to research outputs in Wikipedia. For a list of supported languages please see our support article here.

Timeframes¶

Timeframes are used to group the total number of mentions in a specific time period. For instance, 1d is the number of mentions in the past day, 1m is one month, etc. at (all time) is the number of mentions we've seen since we first spotted this article.

Key	Type	Description
`1y`	string	Number of mentions in the last year.
`6m`	string	Number of mentions in the last six months.
`3m`	string	Number of mentions in the last 3 months.
`1m`	string	Number of mentions in the last one month.
`1w`	string	Number of mentions in the last week.
`3d`	string	Number of mentions in the last three days.
`1d`	string	Number of mentions in the last one day.
`at`	string	Number of mentions in total.