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Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Research University Faculty: Use of Altmetrics, ISBN 978-1-57440-477-7 The study presents data from a survey of 325 faculty, drawn from more than 50 major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia, about their use of altmetric measures of the impact of scholarly articles and related works. The 115-page study gives detailed information for faculty use of altmetric badges, altmetrics.com, Plum Analytics, and many other emerging alternative methods of assessing a publication’s use or impact. The report gives precise data on use of alert services from major scholarly publishers, as well as the tracking of use or citations on research aggregation sites, and on social media. The report covers how faculty use LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Twitter, ImpactStory, YouTube, Open Syllabus, Mendeley, Facebook and many many other sources to track citations of their works and those of their peers. The study also quantifies how many and what kind of faculty ask for assistance with altmetrics and what kind of assistance that they require. The report also covers faculty use of reports from institutional digital repositories. Data in the report is broken out by many personal and institutional criteria including: age, gender, tenure status, teaching load, subject specialty and academic title of the survey participant, and country of origin, public/private status, and world university ranking of the university affiliated with the survey participant, among other variables. Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: • Altmetric badge usage was highest at institutions in the UK/Ireland where they were used by 16% of faculty sampled. • Australian faculty were much more likely than others to track the use of their publications on major research aggregation platforms; 20% of them did so. • Faculty under age 30 were much more likely than others to track mention of their publications in blogs; 11% of them did so. • 70% of faculty in business/economics track their citations in Google Scholar, the highest percentage of any academic field in the sample. • 36% of Dean/Department Chair/Distinguished Professors had received a report on how often their publications had been downloaded from their university digital repository, as had 23% of Assistant Professors, 17-18% of Professors and Associate Professor/Readers, and 10-11% of Instructor/Lecturers and Postdoc/Fellows. • 35% of scholars with conservative political views track the use of or citation of their publications on LinkedIn, a far higher percentage than for the overall sample. To view a table of contents, an excerpt, the survey questionnaire and a list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants – or to place an order – view the product page for this report at: http://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=458 Or view our general website at www.PrimaryResearch.com