Altmetrics and Archives
Author : Elizabeth Joan Kelly Altmetrics are an alternative to traditional measurement of the impact of published resources. While altmetrics are primarily used...
Étiquette : Altmetrics
Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
Author : Stefanie Haustein As uptake among researchers is constantly increasing, social media are finding their way into scholarly communication and, under the ...
Altmetrics and Grey Literature: Perspectives and Challenges
Authors : Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost Traditional metrics largely overlook grey literature. The new altmetrics introduced in 2010 as ” new, online scho...
Altmetrics: The Emerging Alternative Metrics for Web Research Analysis
Authors : Ashok Kumar, J Shivarama, Mallikarjun Angadi, Puttaraj A Choukimath The use of web 2.0 is becoming the essential part of present day life. People are ...
Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) of “Nature” Journal
Author : Chintha Nagabhushanam The main aim of scientific research is to systematically generate valid data which is measurable, reproducible, and testable, con...
Revisiting an open access monograph experiment: measuring citations and tweets 5 years later
Author : Ronald Snijder An experiment run in 2009 could not assess whether making monographs available in open access enhanced scholarly impact. This paper revi...
To what extent does the Leiden Manifesto also apply to altmetrics? A discussion of the manifesto against the background of research into altmetrics
Authors : Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild Purpose Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke, and Rafols (2015) have formulated the so-called Leiden manifesto, in which...