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, ...
Étiquette : Altmetrics
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...
Altmetrics of “altmetrics” using Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Google-plus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki
We measure the impact of “altmetrics” field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Goog...
Research data explored: an extended analysis of citations and altmetrics
In this study, we explore the citedness of research data, its distribution over time and its relation to the availability of a digital object identifier (DOI) i...
Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact
What does it mean to have meaningful metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? With a foreword by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem, this highly enga...
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...