(10 Nov 2025) For decades, journal articles have been the gold standard of scholarly communication. And while they remain central to how academia measures impact, the landscape of research dissemination is shifting. Open repositories are playing a crucial role in this shift.
Today we release the Altmetric Top 25 NTRO Repositories, shining a spotlight on this shift. Compiled by Simon Porter, VP of Research Futures at Digital Science, the Top 25 highlights the most-discussed NTROs (non-traditional research outputs) of 2024 – from policy reports and datasets to creative and digital works that captured public attention around the world – and the repositories in which they can be found.
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