Case Study Using the Explorer for Institution One of the main goals for the EPA is to educate the public and provide research and tools to support environmental policy around the world. Bruce and the workgroup’s main objective for using Explorer for Institutions is to track and report on how the EPA’s funded research is having an impact on the public. To do this the workgroup use the Explorer to conduct a variety of different searches for groups of funded publications. Using the Explorer’s powerful search functionality, they can bulk upload DOIs and perform searches to quickly identify how much online attention was given to specific groups of funded research. Prior to using altmetrics, Bruce and his team only used traditional citation metrics and manually searched for mentions of

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