Representation and trend analysis of the world's top altmetrics papers [PDF]
The 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]
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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Altmetrics – A Collated Adjunct Beyond Citations for Scholarly Impact: A Systematic Review [PDF]
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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Measuring serendipity with altmetrics and randomness
Many discussions on serendipitous research discovery stress its unfortunate immeasurability. This unobservability may be due to paradoxes that arise out of the usual conceptualizations of serendipity, such as “accidental” versus “goal-oriented” discovery,
Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher
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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]
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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Academic Librarians’ Knowledge of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics
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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Can We Count on Social Media Metrics? First Insights into the Active Scholarly Use of Social Media
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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Altmetrics and its importance in evaluating the scientific researches: A practical study
This study identifies the meaning of altmetrics and the conditions of its creation and its importance in the evaluation of scientific research.
Hanem Abdelrahim
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Tweeting and retweeting scientific articles: implications for altmetrics
Despite differences in extent of engagement of users, original tweets and retweets to scientific publications are considered as equal events. Current research investigates quantifiable differences between tweets and retweets from an altmetric point of ...
Ashraf Maleki, Kim Holmberg
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A Review of Theory and Practice in Scientometrics [PDF]
Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in the academic literature.
Leydesdorff, Loet, Mingers, John
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