Abstract Relevance is a key element for analyzing bibliometrics and information retrieval (IR). In both domains, relevance decisions are discussed theoretically sometimes evaluated in empirical studies. IR research often based on test collections which explicit judgments made, while implicit signals like citations or other non-traditional quantifiers altmetrics. While types of share common conc...

Introduction Citation frequency has become a popular index for quality evaluation of academic publications, e.g. articles, journals or books. Traditional altmetrics researches pay less attention to book-level evaluation, and they do not make use of content information. In this paper, we present a novel method, reviewmetrics, namely altmetrics to evaluate academic books based on reviews. We comb...

The characteristics of academic users interested in altmetrical infor-mation are defined. online survey 302 respondents was conduc-ted to reveal the level awareness and interest scientific community. analysis responses about altmetrics is supplemented with data on respondents' using traditional scientometric information. It found that a high degree indicators (91.4% refer them), remained mostly...