Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective [PDF]
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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Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion About Scholarly Metrics [PDF]
This article presents the results of a faculty survey conducted at the University of Vermont during academic year 2014-2015. The survey asked faculty about: familiarity with scholarly metrics, metric seeking habits, help seeking habits, and the role of ...
DeSanto, Daniel, Nichols, Aaron
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The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of Indonesia research especially in agriculture published in international Scopus journals using Altmetrics. This research method consisted of problem identification, data collection, data preprocessing,
Cecep Ibrahim +2 more
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Altmetrics' rank among quantitative methods of evaluation of scientific work
Altmetrics was developed in 2010 and have attracted high interest of publishers, researchers, and generators of information databases. Altmetrics quickly obtained high popularity and have become one of the additional assessment tools for evaluation of ...
Vadim N. Gureyev, Nikolay A. Mazov
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Issues in the Interpretation of “Altmetrics” Digital Traces: A Review
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]
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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Career development tips for today's nursing academic: bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media [PDF]
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: A discussion of bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media for the contemporary nursing scholar and academic researcher.
Smith, Derek R., Watson, Roger
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Visualization Analysis on the Research Development of Altmetrics in China
[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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Introduction Novel bibliometric indexes (commonly known as altmetrics) are gaining interest within the scientific community and might represent an important alternative measure of research quality and output.
Valeria Scotti +5 more
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Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated bot accounts on Twitter [PDF]
This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific papers deposited on the preprint repository arXiv.
Bowman, Timothy D. +5 more
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