Altmetrics

20/06/2014

Altmetric Launches New Tool to Help Academic Institutions Track and Report on Broader Impact of Research

« Alternative metrics provider Altmetric today announced the release of Altmetric for Institutions, a web-based software application that enables higher educational institutions to track and evaluate the online dissemination and impact of their authored research.

Altmetric collates mentions of scholarly articles across traditional and social media, blog…

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05/06/2014

College & Research Libraries News – Top trends in academic libraries. A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education

« … Every other year, the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee produces a document on top trends in academic libraries. This year, after numerous discussions and literature reviews, the committee decided upon a unifying theme for current trends: deeper collaboration. The committee found examples of either recent library collaborations…

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02/06/2014

Plum Analytics Extends PlumX with Enterprise-Level Security. Users Measuring Research Impact Can Use Single Sign On to Authenticate Through Shibboleth

« … By allowing single sign-on, Plum Analytics, an EBSCO company, enables users easier access to the alternative metrics it provides from the authentication systems popular in academic institutions and corporate enterprises and ensures that only authorized users update researcher information (…) »

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02/06/2014

Research Trends – Issue 37: Special Issue on alternative metrics – Mike Taylor, Gali Halevi and Henk F. Moed

« This special issue of Research Trends is dedicated to altmetrics, or, as some may prefer, alternative metrics. The growing interest in the development of alternative measurements of scientific productivity resulted in the 2010 Altmetrics manifesto in which the term “altmetrics” was introduced. The manifesto notes that “in growing numbers,…

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24/04/2014

Novel Research Impact Indicators – Martin Fenner, Jennifer Lin (.pdf)

« Abstract

Citation counts and more recently usage statistics provide valuable information about the attention and research impact associated with scholarly publications. The open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) has pioneered the concept of article-level metrics, where these metrics are collected on a per article and not a…

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31/01/2014

Springer now sharing data from Altmetric on SpringerLink

« … Springer announced that it has added altmetrics information to every article available on SpringerLink (link.springer.com), the publishing company’s online platform. The data is provided by Altmetric, a London-based start-up which tracks and analyzes the online activity around scholarly literature. The addition of this feature makes the alternative metrics…

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27/01/2014

Do ‘altmetrics’ correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective Rodrigo Costas, Zohreh Zahedi and Paul Wouters – CWTS-WP-2014-001 (.pdf)

« Abstract

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…

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15/10/2013

Altmetrics Bibliography – Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

« Introduction

The Altmetrics Bibliography includes selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding altmetrics.

The « altmetrics » concept is still evolving. In « The Altmetrics Collection, » Jason Priem, Paul Groth, and Dario Taraborelli define altmetrics as follows:

Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly…

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