• In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are non-traditional bibliometrics proposed as an alternative or complement to more traditional citation impact metrics, such as impact factor and h-index. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the #altmetrics hashtag. (wikipedia.org)
  • The following table shows the number of artefacts, including papers, covered by services: Altmetrics are a very broad group of metrics, capturing various parts of impact a paper or work can have. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term has also been used to describe the metrics themselves-one could propose in plural a 'set of new altmetrics. (digital-scholarship.org)
  • Mr. Roberts can't say for sure that including the digital footprint of his research-captured in part with alternative metrics, or "altmetrics," like those listed above-helped him in his bid for tenure. (chronicle.com)
  • Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics , Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications , and Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications come from NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, which aims to address any limitations hindering the adoption of altmetrics. (infotoday.com)
  • Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. (bc.edu)
  • Altmetrics contrast with traditional research metrics which are quantitative rankings based on citation analysis of a researcher, research team or institution's scholarly publications, providing a purely numerical score indicating the number of citations this scholarship has received within academic journals. (libguides.com)
  • The speed with which newly published articles are shared across the web is one of the strengths of altmetrics compared to citation-based metrics, which are counted two or three years after publication. (scielo.org)
  • Altmetrics (or alternative metrics) are alternative ways to measure the impact of a publication, providing article-level evidence of the societal impact of research, in terms of its mentions in social media, Wikipedia and other platforms, news sources and policy documents. (hanken.fi)
  • Here are research guides created at other colleges and universities to explain and explore alternative citation metrics, also called altmetrics. (loyno.edu)
  • Some provide a count of document views or downloads, others provide 'citation like' metrics and some databases aggregate altmetrics to offer graphical representations of attention or mentions. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. (blogspot.com)
  • Altmetrics (alternative metrics), as they have become known, consider a wide range of activity such as Tweets, Facebook mentions, shares on academic networking sites such as Mendeley and CiteULike , and article views and downloads. (libguides.com)
  • Kudos also provides a unique one-stop shop for multiple metrics relating to your publications: page views, citations, full text downloads and altmetrics. (libguides.com)
  • In 2013 the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) launched the NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Initiative, with a goal to, 'explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. (mssm.edu)
  • Alternative Metrics, or altmetrics, are new measures used to track research impact. (mssm.edu)
  • To address this new scholarly communication landscape, some academics have asserted the importance of alternative metrics or altmetrics . (uky.edu)
  • Three panelists will provide an overview of altmetrics, address the perceptions of altmetrics from the perspectives of an author and journal editor, and discuss metrics for research assessment and faculty evaluation at UK. (uky.edu)
  • The findings of this study are that although use of altmetrics is at a relatively early stage when compared to traditional bibliometrics, a number of professional groups are using the tools and underlying qualitative data to enhance existing processes. (authorea.com)
  • Guide to bibliometrics, altmetrics and citation technologies used to determine the impact and importance of publications, peer-reviewed and otherwise, as measured in many different environments, formal and informal. (loyno.edu)
  • Projects such as ImpactStory, and various companies, including Altmetric, Plum Analytics and Overton are calculating altmetrics. (wikipedia.org)
  • But interest in altmetrics is growing fast, as scholars begin to realize that it's possible to track and share evidence of online impact, and publishers and new start-up companies rush to develop altmetric services to help them document that impact. (chronicle.com)
  • Indeed, Kathy Christian, chief executive of UK-based Altmetric, is certain altmetrics awareness in institutions is increasing. (researchinformation.info)
  • Altmetrics are traditionally viewed as the realm of evaluation and assessment, but altmetric data can offer valuable insights throughout the research lifecycle. (litablog.org)
  • We conduct interviews to learn more about how altmetrics are applied by various teams in a university, with a particular focus on the use of tools built by Altmetric, including the Altmetric for Institutions platform. (authorea.com)
  • The following case studies, however, offer a detailed insight into the current applications of altmetrics and Altmetric for Institutions. (authorea.com)
  • A website created by the proprietary company Altmetric that details how altmetrics can be used by a variety of audiences (researchers, librarians, funders, publishers) and how they can be found. (loyno.edu)
  • The company Altmetric, one of the major organizations that tracks and reports on altmetrics, was founded in 2011 . (mssm.edu)
  • Use the Altmetric Bookmarklet: You can use the free Altmetric bookmarklet to find out altmetrics for any journal article. (mssm.edu)
  • The term "altmetrics" has only been around since 2010, when Jason Priem, a doctoral candidate at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first used it in, fittingly enough, a tweet. (chronicle.com)
  • altmetrics: a manifesto" by Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli et al. (unl.edu)
  • This 90 minute webinar will bring participants up to speed on the current state of altmetrics, and focus in on changes across the scholarly ecosystem. (litablog.org)
  • Through sharing of use cases, tips, and open discussion, this session will help participants to develop a nuanced, strategic framework for incorporating and promoting wider adoption of altmetrics throughout the research lifecycle at their institution and beyond. (litablog.org)
  • Now, research usage data for one of the largest Chinese e-journals content collections is available through the PlumX altmetrics suite. (plumanalytics.com)
  • When collated, the source of the mention or a discussion about research may be graphically presented as the 'splat' (PlumX) or 'donut' (Altmetrics). (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Altmetrics have been used in applications for promotion review by researchers. (wikipedia.org)
  • altmetrics can be collected fast, letting researchers see, almost in real time, how an article or data set or blog post is moving through all levels of the scholarly ecosystem. (chronicle.com)
  • This is an archived copy of the content shared on Impactstory's "Ultimate Guide to Altmetrics (for researchers)", which I developed in January 2015. (figshare.com)
  • Critics of Altmetrics certainly raise good points, on matters such as the potential of good communicators being noticed and rewarded rather than good researchers. (infotoday.eu)
  • Historical Altmetrics has three goals: to craft a narrative that is intelligible to scholars who are not engaged in digital humanities, to illustrate how researchers without significant technical skills or outside assistance can conduct digital humanities research, and to model a scholarly argument based on computational evidence. (michellemoravec.com)
  • Altmetrics did not originally cover citation counts, but calculate scholar impact based on diverse online research output, such as social media, online news media, online reference managers and so on. (wikipedia.org)
  • Altmetrics could be applied to research filter, promotion and tenure dossiers, grant applications and for ranking newly-published articles in academic search engines. (wikipedia.org)
  • The NISO Altmetrics Initiative also explored potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications. (niso.org)
  • Often described as tomorrow's filters for today, altmetrics emerged at the turn of this decade to make sense of scholarly impact in a burgeoning research ecosystem. (researchinformation.info)
  • We call for more tools and research based on altmetrics. (unl.edu)
  • One potential way of quantitatively assessing societal impact has been through altmetrics - online indicators of research use. (socialsciencespace.com)
  • There's a shift in how research is being communicated which altmetrics can measure - and librarians should be involved. (infotoday.eu)
  • Altmetrics measure research that is shared and discussed via tools such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ in addition to media and press mentions amongst others. (infotoday.eu)
  • This paper presents three case studies describing the use of altmetrics across three research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK and USA. (authorea.com)
  • Information and resources for using altmetrics to demonstrate research impact. (libguides.com)
  • Need help with altmetrics and your research? (libguides.com)
  • Altmetrics measure where research surfaces in a variety of non-academic environments. (libguides.com)
  • Altmetrics provide solid evidence of your research impact by uncovering engagement in government policy, news sources, blogs, clinical guidelines and other expert recommendations. (libguides.com)
  • Altmetrics potential for measuring the broader societal impacts of scientific research have been under discussion. (helsinki.fi)
  • This book adapts altmetrics, a born-digital concept that seeks to measure influence beyond traditional indicators, for scholarly research. (michellemoravec.com)
  • The Altmetrics database displays the number of Mendeley users who have saved a research output to their library and provides a geographical and statistical breakdown. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Altmetrics Explorer is an intuitive platform that enables you to monitor the online activity surrounding academic research. (blogspot.com)
  • The first panel discussion "#Altmetrics: Demystifying the Link between Research Impact and Social Media," will take place from 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, in the UK Athletics Auditorium in the William T. Young Library . (uky.edu)
  • Available at http://altmetrics.org/manifesto (September 28, 2011). (unl.edu)
  • Unlike other altmetrics providers, Plum Analytics has long included usage statistics as an important category of altmetrics. (plumanalytics.com)
  • These are graphical representations of altmetrics for the article by VUW researcher, Carolyn E. Wilshire and others, "Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome - a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT" BMC Psychology, 6(1), Dec 2018. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Use an ORCiD to search for an individual researcher in Altmetrics and analyse the results. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Create an ImpactStory profile: ImpactStory researcher impact profiles highlight altmetrics and track attention articles receive from non-traditional sources such as Twitter, Reddits, blogs, news outlets and more. (mssm.edu)
  • Since correlation analyses with traditional citations do not really reveal the meaning of altmetrics, I would like to plead for more content analyses of tweets and blogs (for bookmarks in online reference managers, content analyses are not possible). (infodocket.com)
  • This review article from Airiti has diverse altmetrics data including usage, captures, social media and citations from several sources - including a DynaMed clinical citation. (plumanalytics.com)
  • Altmetrics are the alternative measurement of scholarly output, a bit like the impact factor but more social and responsive. (infotoday.eu)
  • The altmetrics movement offers up alternative measures of impact predicated on other signals. (sspnet.org)
  • While initially envisioned as alternative methods for measuring the impact of traditional scholarly publications, altmetrics can be used to track engagement with nearly any online scholarly resource with a persistent identifier or stable URL . (diglib.org)
  • As altmetrics were envisioned as alternative methods to measuring the impact of scholarly works, some tools and tutorials still focus largely on scholarly publications and require DOIs or persistent identifiers to track use/reuse. (diglib.org)
  • Within academia, altmetrics have been used to move beyond citation counts to propose alternative means of identifying the impact of an academic's work. (michellemoravec.com)
  • Next, as part of historical altmetrics, I suggest that scholars will quite frequently need to combine multiple modes of computational analysis. (michellemoravec.com)
  • Can We Use Altmetrics to Measure Societal Impact? (socialsciencespace.com)
  • In a recent study , based on data from the UK REF, we therefore decided to examine the extent to which altmetrics are able to measure societal impact in a way similar to the peer review of case studies. (socialsciencespace.com)
  • Do altmetrics assess societal impact in a comparable way to case studies? (socialsciencespace.com)
  • Do different approaches to societal impact (REF scores and altmetrics) create comparable measures of a common construct in case study data (if they measure the same construct and are convergently valid, then REF scores should correlate with altmetrics data). (socialsciencespace.com)
  • ImpactStory Profiles - an open source tool that highlights altmetrics and non-traditional scholarly products. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments. (digital-scholarship.org)
  • In contrast Altmetrics track online scholarly impact in real time and include both early indicators of scholarly impact, such as views, downloads and bookmarks, and impact in other realms, such as traditional and social media, public policy, education and more. (mssm.edu)
  • Interpreting "altmetrics": viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories. (helsinki.fi)
  • If qualitative assessment is desired via altmetrics, the content of posts and other mentions must be analyzed by the end user to determine if the attention a digital object or collection receives is one of high regard or not. (diglib.org)
  • Describes the metadata and technologies that need to be in place for altmetrics services to track digital library content accurately and at scale. (diglib.org)
  • Altmetrics offers a free bookmarklet that can be added to the bookmarks toolbar and used to get altmetrics on articles with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) or identifiers in open access databases such as PubMed Central or arXiv. (libguides.com)
  • Once you've added the bookmarklet to you browser's bookmarks bar, you can click it any time you are viewing an article to find out the altmetrics score and detail for that article. (mssm.edu)
  • Altmetrics can include any data sources from the web where scholarly resources are shared and engaged with, including social media, comments, blog posts, public policy documents, and social bookmarking services. (diglib.org)
  • Social media users whose posts are indexed in altmetrics services may be unaware of how and to what extent their data is shared in unintended contexts. (diglib.org)
  • May provide data on use/reuse of digital objects more quickly than "traditional" citation analysis because altmetrics typically include results from frequently updated sources like blogs, social media, and mass media. (diglib.org)
  • Some potential altmetrics data, such as social media shares,comments, and subscription news services, may be hidden behind paywalls and logins. (diglib.org)
  • NISO Voting Members reviewed and approved a proposal to develop several standards or recommended practices during Phase 2 of the Altmetrics Initiative. (niso.org)
  • All altmetrics services either scan only publicly available data (e.g., public tweets), anonymized private data (e.g., private Facebook shares), or some combination of the two. (diglib.org)
  • The Altmetrics Bibliography includes selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding altmetrics. (digital-scholarship.org)
  • Altmetrics use public APIs across platforms to gather data with open scripts and algorithms. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term "altmetrics" refers to a type of data that is used to measure the online influence and reach of a variety of scholarly resources, from articles to books to multimedia and more. (diglib.org)
  • These services are required to follow the European data privacy law, GDPR , as well as terms and conditions for third party websites from which altmetrics are sourced. (diglib.org)
  • Altmetrics providers provide an API through which data collected by the platform can be publicly accessed. (openuphub.eu)
  • Data collection strategies among the Altmetrics aggregators differ. (openuphub.eu)
  • While some of the Altmetrics aggregators collect their own data, others reuse previously collected data. (openuphub.eu)
  • Noteworthy altmetrics tools and services. (bc.edu)
  • We showcased the technical and negotiating skills library and information professionals need to enable academics to embrace Altmetrics. (infotoday.eu)
  • This initiative was a direct outgrowth of a breakout discussion group during the altmetrics 12 meeting in Chicago, IL. (niso.org)
  • Sourced from the Web, Altmetrics can tell you a lot about how often journal articles and other scholarly outputs like datasets are discussed and used around the world. (blogspot.com)
  • Altmetrics is based on three main factors: the number of individual mentioning a paper, where the mentions occurred (e.g. newspaper, a tweet), and how often the author of each mention talks about scholarly articles. (libguides.com)
  • It provides context to altmetrics to demonstrate impact. (victoria.ac.nz)
  • Altmetrics are provided by platforms, called Altmetrics providers/aggregators. (openuphub.eu)
  • Altmetrics measure attention, but attention does not necessarily equate to quality. (diglib.org)
  • This is an exploratory study that seeks to find out more about the general awareness, application and potential for using altmetrics across a range of university departments. (authorea.com)
  • Introduction: This overview proposes the idea of historical altmetrics as a method for studying various forms of influence in the past, ranging from individual theorists and activists to conferences and publications. (michellemoravec.com)
  • How can I find altmetrics for my publications? (mssm.edu)
  • Looking to find out the altmetrics for your publications? (mssm.edu)
  • Furthermore, several universities, including the University of Pittsburgh are experimenting with altmetrics at an institute level. (wikipedia.org)
  • No altmetrics tool currently offers a sentiment analysis feature. (diglib.org)
  • Historical altmetrics offers alternatives for understanding and contextualizing the importance of individuals, texts, and specific events in the past. (michellemoravec.com)
  • Institutions that prioritize engagement from news media, local communities, alumni, or other non-academic communities can use altmetrics to greater success than methods such as citation analysis. (diglib.org)
  • Altmetrics may not be accepted by some stakeholders who prefer traditional impact standards. (diglib.org)