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Altmetrics
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Altmetric
In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are non-traditional metrics proposed as an alternative to more traditional citation impact metrics…
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2017
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2017
Altmetrics: an overview and evaluation
Ann E. Williams
Online information review (Print)
2017
Corpus ID: 29103141
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and critique of altmetrics, an understudied yet increasingly…
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Review
2016
Review
2016
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature
Cassidy R. Sugimoto
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Sam Work
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V. Larivière
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S. Haustein
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
2016
Corpus ID: 1572378
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental ways, principally through…
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Review
2016
Review
2016
Altmetrics: an analysis of the state-of-the-art in measuring research impact on social media
Mojisola Erdt
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Aarthy Nagarajan
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Sei-Ching Joanna Sin
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Y. Theng
Scientometrics
2016
Corpus ID: 25837414
Altmetrics is an emergent research area whereby social media is applied as a source of metrics to assess scholarly impact. In the…
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2014
Highly Cited
2014
Do “altmetrics” correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective
R. Costas
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Zohreh Zahedi
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P. Wouters
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
2014
Corpus ID: 8874733
An extensive analysis of the presence of different altmetric indicators provided by Altmetric.com across scientific fields is…
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2014
Highly Cited
2014
Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows
Ehsan Mohammadi
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M. Thelwall
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
2014
Corpus ID: 10431919
Although there is evidence that counting the readers of an article in the social reference site, Mendeley, may help to capture…
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2014
Highly Cited
2014
How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications
Zohreh Zahedi
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R. Costas
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P. Wouters
Scientometrics
2014
Corpus ID: 207236634
In this paper an analysis of the presence and possibilities of altmetrics for bibliometric and performance analysis is carried…
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2014
Review
2014
Alternative metrics in scientometrics: a meta-analysis of research into three altmetrics
L. Bornmann
Scientometrics
2014
Corpus ID: 768687
Alternative metrics are currently one of the most popular research topics in scientometric research. This paper provides an…
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2014
Highly Cited
2014
Using altmetrics for assessing research impact in the humanities
Björn Hammarfelt
Scientometrics
2014
Corpus ID: 13605549
The prospects of altmetrics are especially encouraging for research fields in the humanities that currently are difficult to…
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2013
Highly Cited
2013
Altmetrics: Rethinking the Way We Measure
F. Galligan
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Sharon Dyas-Correia
2013
Corpus ID: 36278874
Abstract Altmetrics is the focus for this edition of “Balance Point.” The column editor invited Finbar Galligan who has gained…
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact
Jason Priem
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Heather A. Piwowar
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B. Hemminger
arXiv.org
2012
Corpus ID: 8127466
In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional…
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