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PlumX Metrics API · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

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PlumX Metrics API

brycewang-stanford/plumx-metrics-api

Source brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Track research impact beyond citations via PlumX altmetrics API

SkillScore100Maintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 8/29/2026

What it changes

Passed 23 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 17 of 23 without it.

Without skill74%

With skill100%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Identifies mention as the singular category key name.
Parses category data using the count_categories key name.
Uses scopusId as the path segment name for Scopus ID queries.

and 3 more in the full report

6 fixed17 passed either way0 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +26 pp
Tokens: +52%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -35%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/29/2026v123 of 23 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/brycewang-stanford-plumx-metrics-api.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 6

Prompt

When analyzing news articles and blog posts discussing a paper via the PlumX API response, what string key represents the news and blog commentary category inside count_categories? Is it plural 'mentions', singular 'mention', or 'commentary'?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Identifies mention as the singular category key name.	Missed	Passed

case-10 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/29/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md176 linessingle file

PlumX Metrics API

Overview

PlumX (by Elsevier/Plum Analytics) tracks 5 categories of research impact metrics beyond traditional citations: Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media, and Citations. It covers 130M+ research artifacts including articles, datasets, presentations, and videos. Available via Elsevier's API infrastructure. Requires an Elsevier API key.

Metric Categories

Category	What it measures	Examples
Usage	Reading/viewing	Abstract views, PDF downloads, HTML views
Captures	Saving for later	Mendeley readers, CiteULike bookmarks
Mentions	Commentary	Blog posts, news articles, Wikipedia refs
Social Media	Sharing/discussion	Tweets, Facebook shares, Reddit posts
Citations	Formal references	Scopus, CrossRef, PubMed citations

API Endpoints

Base URL

https://api.elsevier.com/analytics/plumx/

Get Metrics by DOI

curl -H "X-ELS-APIKey: $ELSEVIER_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.elsevier.com/analytics/plumx/doi/10.1038/nature14539"

Get Metrics by Other IDs

# By PubMed ID
curl -H "X-ELS-APIKey: $ELSEVIER_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.elsevier.com/analytics/plumx/pmid/25428114"

# By ISBN
curl -H "X-ELS-APIKey: $ELSEVIER_API_KEY" \

Track record

Benchmark

23 / 23

test cases passed, vs 17 / 23 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/9/2026

View 15 scanner checks

live_secretremote_code_executionreverse_shelldata_exfiltrationssrf_metadataagent_snoopinganti_refusaldestructive_commandsobfuscated_unicodeunicode_homoglyphopaque_blobsuspicious_urltool_overreachtrigger_abuseprompt_injection_phrasing

IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

brycewang-stanford / Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/literature/metadata/plumx-metrics-api/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License NOASSERTIONImported 8/9/2026Version v1

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What's inside

PlumX Metrics API

Overview

Metric Categories

API Endpoints

Base URL

Get Metrics by DOI

Get Metrics by Other IDs

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

Source

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