Issues in the Interpretation of “Altmetrics” Digital Traces: A Review
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2018 Researchers leave traces of their behavior during many stages of their research process. Parts of this process were formerly invisible. With scholarship moving online, we can now access various types of altmetrics digital traces such as reading ...
Shenmeng Xu
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Tweeting biomedicine: an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature [PDF]
, 2013 Data collected by social media platforms have recently been introduced as a new source for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation-based indicators.
Haustein, Stefanie +4 more
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Visualization Analysis on the Research Development of Altmetrics in China
Zhishi guanli luntan, 2017 [Purpose/significance] With the deepening of Altmetrics’ research, the analysis of its development trend will help researchers to study the research progress and hot contents, and provide some references for the ...
Qi Shijie, Zheng Junwei, SHI Haiyan
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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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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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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016 Objective – In order to inform a library service related to creating and maintaining online scholarly profiles, we sought to assess the knowledge base and needs of our academic communities.
Kathleen Reed +2 more
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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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Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective [PDF]
, 2014 An extensive analysis of the presence of different altmetric indicators provided by Altmetric.com across scientific fields is presented, particularly focusing on their relationship with citations.
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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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