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...
Étiquette : Altmetrics
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...
What increases (social) media attention: Research impact, author prominence or title attractiveness?
Authors : Olga Zagovora, Katrin Weller, Milan Janosov, Claudia Wagner, Isabella Peters Do only major scientific breakthroughs hit the news and social media, or ...
Altmetrics of the Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Webometrics Approach
Author : Isidro F. Aguillo Self-archiving in Institutional Repositories (IRs) is playing a central role in the success of the Open Access initiatives. Deposited...
Do altmetrics assess societal impact in the same way as case studies? An empirical analysis testing the convergent validity of altmetrics based on data from the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF)
Authors : Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Jonathan Adams Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although altmetrics ...
Social media metrics for new research evaluation
Authors : Paul Wouters, Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas This chapter approaches, both from a theoretical and practical perspective, the most important principles ...
Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos
Authors : Mojisola Erdt, Htet Htet Aung, Ashley Sara Aw, Charlie Rapple, Yin-Leng Theng With the growth of scholarly collaboration networks and social communica...