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 ...
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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...
Tracking the Digital Footprints to Scholarly Articles from Social Media
Authors : Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Xinhui Guo Scholarly articles are discussed and shared on social media, which generates altmetrics. On the opposite side, ...
Can we use altmetrics at the institutional level? A case study analysing the coverage by research areas of four Spanish universities
Authors : Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras Social media based indicators or altmetrics have been under scrutiny for th...
Measuring Book Impact Based on the Multi-granularity Online Review Mining
As with articles and journals, the customary methods for measuring books’ academic impact mainly involve citations, which is easy but limited to interroga...