Today, it is not clear how the impact of research on other areas of society than science should be measured. While peer review and bibliometrics have become standard methods for measuring the impact of research in science, there is not yet an accepted framework within which to measure societal impact. Alternative metrics (called altmetrics to distinguish them from bibliometrics) are considered ...

Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either impact or utility although a few case studies have reported medium correlations between specific altmetrics and citation rates for individual journa...

Abstract There is no singular way of measuring the value research. are multiple criteria evaluation given by different fields, including academia but also others, such as policy, media, and application. One measure within academy citations, while indications wider now offered altmetrics. This study investigates research using a novel design focusing on World Bank, which illuminates complex rela...

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. Our results confirm that the presence and density of social media altmetric counts are still very low and not very frequent among scientific publications, with 15%-24% of the publications presenting s...

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. The popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin and social bookmarks such as Mendeley and CiteULike are nowadays widely used for communicating research to larger transnational audiences. ...

Purpose: In this study, we address the question of the unclear meaning of altmetrics by studying their relationship with scientific quality (measured by peer assessments). Design: In the first step, we analyze the underlying dimensions of measurement for traditional metrics (citation counts) and altmetrics - by using principal component analysis (PCA). In the second step, we test the relationsh...

Introduction: Traditional citation analysis has been greatly criticized because the process of citation accumulation requires considerable time after publication. So, the term “altmetrics” was proposed in 2010 to measure the scientific and social impact of a paper.We performed a search for certain nuclear medicine topics using the altmetrics approach to report the correlation b...

prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics Scott Lapinski, Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem Scott Lapinski is digital resources and services librarian at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, email: [email protected], Heather Piwowar is a co-­‐founder of ImpactStory and a postdoc at the National Evolutionary Synthesis through Duke University, email heather@...

1. Introduction More than 30 years after Blaise Cronin's seminal paper (Cronin, 1981; see reprint in this book) the metrics community is once again in need of a new theory, this time one for so-called " altmetrics ". Altmetrics, short for alternative (to citation) metrics —and as such a misnomer— refers to a new group of metrics based (largely) on social media events relating to scholarly commu...