Altmetrics and societal impact measurements: Match or mismatch? A literature review
Authors : Iman Tahamtan, Lutz Bornmann Can alternative metrics (altmetrics) data be used to measure societal impact? We wrote this literature overview of empiri...
Étiquette : Altmetrics
How much research shared on Facebook is hidden from public view? A comparison of public and private online activity around PLOS ONE papers
Authors : Asura Enkhbayar, Stefanie Haustein, Germana Barata, Juan Pablo Alperin Despite its undisputed position as the biggest social media platform, Facebook ...
Share or perish: Social media and the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Authors : Paul McNamara, Kim Usher The impact of published research is sometimes measured by the number of citations an individual article accumulates. However,...
The effect of bioRxiv preprints on citations and altmetrics
Authors : Nicholas Fraser, Fakhri Momeni, Philipp Mayr, Isabella Peters A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is t...
Aligning Social Media Indicators with the Documents in an Open Access Repository
Authors: Luis Meneses, Alyssa Arbuckle, Hector Lopez, Belaid Moa, Richard Furuta, Ray Siemens In this paper we describe our current efforts towards building a f...
Do altmetrics work for assessing research quality?
Authors : Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Paolo Ciancarini, Aldo Gangemi, Silvio Peroni, Francesco Poggi, Valentina Presutti Alternative metrics (aka altmetrics) are...
The insoluble problems of books: What does Altmetric.com have to offer?
Authors : Daniel Torres-Salinas, Juan Gorraiz, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia The purpose of this paper is to analyze the capabilities, functionalities and appropriate...