Tweets Do Measure Non – Citational Intellectual Impact
Purpose The aim of the paper is to identify the motive behind the social media indicators in focus to tweets and attempts to identify what is measured or indica...
Étiquette : Altmetrics
Altmetrics as traces of the computerization of the research process
I propose a broad, multi-dimensional conception of altmetrics, namely as traces of the computerization of the research process. Computerization should be concei...
The quandary between communication and certification
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes and participation in Open Access Publishing and open scholarship ...
Interpreting « altmetrics »: viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories
« More than 30 years after Cronin’s seminal paper on « the need for a theory of citing » (Cronin, 1981), the metrics community is once again in need of a ...
Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns
« A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research ...
New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric.com
« This paper analyzes Altmetric.com, one of the most important altmetric data providers currently used. We have analyzed a set of publications with DOI number i...
Altmetrics as a means of assessing scholarly output
« Career progression for scientists involves an assessment of their contribution to their field and a prediction of their future potential. Traditional measures...