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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What makes papers visible on social media? An analysis of various document characteristics [PDF]
, 2016 In this study we have investigated the relationship between different document characteristics and the number of Mendeley readership counts, tweets, Facebook posts, mentions in blogs and mainstream media for 1.3 million papers published in journals ...
Costas, Rodrigo +3 more
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Altmetrics, Legacy Scholarship, and Scholarly Legacy
Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2017 When using alternative metrics (altmetrics) to investigate the impact of a scholar’s work, researchers and librarians are typically cautioned that altmetrics will be less useful for older works of scholarship.
Lauren B. Collister, Ashley L. Taylor
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What increases (social) media attention: Research impact, author prominence or title attractiveness? [PDF]
, 2018 Do only major scientific breakthroughs hit the news and social media, or does a 'catchy' title help to attract public attention? How strong is the connection between the importance of a scientific paper and the (social) media attention it receives?
Janosov, Milan +4 more
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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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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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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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Genesis of Altmetrics or Article-level Metrics for Measuring Efficacy of Scholarly Communications: Current Perspectives [PDF]
, 2014 The article-level metrics (ALMs) or altmetrics becomes a new trendsetter in recent times for measuring the impact of scientific publications and their social outreach to intended audiences.
Das, Anup Kumar, Mishra, Sanjaya
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Allegation of scientific misconduct increases Twitter attention
, 2018 The web-based microblogging system Twitter is a very popular altmetrics source for measuring the broader impact of science. In this case study, we demonstrate how problematic the use of Twitter data for research evaluation can be, even though the ...
Bornmann, Lutz, Haunschild, Robin
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