Introduction In the light of current knowledge we can conclude that altmetrics do not present an alternative for traditional citation-based analysis of research impact (e.g., Haustein et al., 2014). Altmetrics have instead the potential to show some other aspects of research activities and provide a more nuanced view of the impact research has made on various audiences (Liu & Adie, 2013; Piwowa...

Traditional metrics largely overlook grey literature. The new altmetrics introduced in 2010 as “new, online scholarly tools (that allow) to make new filters” (Altmetrics Manifesto), can include all kinds of scholarly output which makes them interesting for grey literature. The topic of our paper is the connection between altmetrics and grey literature. Do altmetrics offer new opportunities for ...

A range of quantitative methods are today widely used in research evaluation (e.g. Moed et al., 1985; Moed et al., 1995). Recently, with the increasing popularity of social media, and especially the increasing use of social media in scholarly activities, a new field of research has been introduced, namely altmetrics, to investigate the use of social media in research evaluation (Priem & Hemming...

Introduction Altmetrics has been a shelter for all possible alternative indicators corresponding to traditional citation-based indicators, with extra focus on online indicators. Altmetrics has been discussed in variety of contexts, such as open science (Mounce, 2013), institutional depositories (Adie, Francois, & Nixon, 2014), publishing industry (Piwowar, 2013) and scholarly communication refo...

Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics , edited by Andy Tattersall, provides an overview of altmetrics and new methods of scholarly communication and how they can be applied successfully to provide evidence of scholarly contribution and improve how research is disseminated. The book, which draws on the expertise of leading figures in the field, strongly encourag...

Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the promotion of new indicators on the basis of interactions with these platforms. Research and scholarship in this area has accelerated since the coining and subsequent advocacy for altmetrics—that is, research indicators ...

Introduction As a new emerging field, Altmetrics has become a trendsetter, and received a good deal of attention by researchers involved in the evaluation of scientific research. Moreover, it has led to a notable growth in the related academic literature. The international landscape has displayed an exponential growth in the field of scholarly publishing with several studies exploring altmetric...

Recently, two new indicators (Equalized Mean-based Normalized Proportion Cited, EMNPC; Mean-based Normalized Proportion Cited, MNPC) were proposed which are intended for sparse scientometrics data. The indicators compare the proportion of mentioned papers (e.g. on Facebook) of a unit (e.g., a researcher or institution) with the proportion of mentioned papers in the corresponding fields and publ...

Using Article-Level-Metrics (ALMs) data from PLOS, we analyze the citations, views, saves, and shares of different types of articles. Using multiple statistical and visualization techniques, we explore scientists’ behaviors associated with scholarly works, which could help us better understand their information needs, and provide clues about how different types of scholarly information are valu...

We measure the impact of “altmetrics” field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Googleplus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 20102014. To capture the social impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt-index, analogues to h-index. Across the deployed indices, our results have shown high correlation among the in...