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I f you are reading this you are very likely to know that Oxford Dictionaries ‘declared “post-truth” as its 2016 international word of the year’.

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I have done revisions to this post since publication. [I don’t have time. What is this about? My view is that altmetrics are not merely tools for the measurement of  online attention but tools that can help us discover the literature that is being tracked as mentioned. I used the Altmetric Explorer as a tool to discover articles about inequality.

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