Altmetric. com is one of the leading and widely used commercial providers of altmetrics.
Altmetrics is a broad term that encapsulates the collection of multiple digital indicators …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of altmetrics in
different disciplines of social science: first, by investigating the current richness and future …

Purpose This study aims to measure the impact of the selected papers in the field of social
sciences indexed in Scopus using altmetrics tools. Design/methodology/approach The …

Since their emergence in 2010, altmetrics as new indicators of research impact receive
considerable attention from scientometricians and various other parties including librarians …

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 …

It has always been argued that social sciences and humanities (SSH) impact evaluation
calls for a broader range of indicators than only bibliometric indicators. This study analyzes …

A range of quantitative methods are today widely used in research evaluation (eg Moed et
al., 1985; Moed et al., 1995). Recently, with the increasing popularity of social media, and …

As the online dissemination of scholarly outputs gets faster and easier, altmetrics, social
media based indices, have emerged alongside traditional metrics for research evaluation. In …

Altmetrics indices are increasingly applied to measure scholarly influence in recent years
because they can reflect the influence of research outputs more timely comparing with …

Altmetrics are indicators that have been proposed as alternatives to citation counts for
academic publication impact assessment. Altmetrics may be valued for their speed or ability …