Are methodological quality and completeness of reporting associated with citation-based measures of publication impact? A secondary analysis of a systematic review of dementia biomarker studies [PDF]
, 2018 Objective: To determine whether methodological and reporting quality are associated with surrogate measures of publication impact in the field of dementia biomarker studies.
Drozdowska, Bogna A. +5 more
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The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics [PDF]
, 2013 Activity of modern scholarship creates online footprints galore. Along with traditional metrics of research quality, such as citation counts, online images of researchers and institutions increasingly matter in evaluating academic impact, decisions about
Samoilenko, Anna, Yasseri, Taha
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Academic Librarians’ Knowledge of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016 Objective – To measure the knowledge and opinions that academic librarians have of established and emerging research metrics. Methods – An online survey was distributed to all academic librarians in Oklahoma during Summer 2015.
Tara Malone, Susan Burke
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Representation and trend analysis of the world's top altmetrics papers [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & ManagementThe purpose of this paper is to represent and analyze the trend of the world's top altmetrics papers. This study is an applied research and it was carried out using altmetrics and scientometrics methods.
Mehri Sedighi, Roya Pournaghi
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Usage History of Scientific Literature: Nature Metrics and Metrics of Nature Publications [PDF]
, 2013 In this study, we analyze the dynamic usage history of Nature publications over time using Nature metrics data. We conduct analysis from two perspectives.
Mao, Wenli +3 more
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The pros and cons of the use of altmetrics in research assessment [PDF]
, 2020 © 2020 The Authors. Published by Levi Library Press. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: http://doi.org/10.29024/sar.10Many ...
Thelwall, Michael
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Altmetrics – A Collated Adjunct Beyond Citations for Scholarly Impact: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017 Introduction: In emerging figures, scholars are unifying social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications.
Basavaraj Patthi +7 more
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Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either ...
Mike Thelwall +3 more
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Can We Count on Social Media Metrics? First Insights into the Active Scholarly Use of Social Media
, 2018 Measuring research impact is important for ranking publications in academic search engines and for research evaluation. Social media metrics or altmetrics measure the impact of scientific work based on social media activity.
Kling, Christoph Carl +4 more
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Supporting the Research Feedback Loop - Why and how library and information professionals should engage with altmetrics to support research [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the opportunities altmetrics offer to library and information professionals as part of their research support provision.
Tattersall, A.
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