Genesis of altmetrics or article-level metrics for measuring efficacy of scholarly communications: Current perspectives

AK Das, S Mishra - arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0090, 2014 - arxiv.org
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 …

Scientific vs. public attention: a comparison of top cited papers in WoS and top papers by Altmetric Score

SK Banshal, A Basu, VK Singh, PK Muhuri - Altmetrics for Research …, 2018 - Springer
Alternative metrics or altmetrics are article level metrics that have been used to quantify the
attention given to scholarly papers in online fora or social media. In a way it was sought to …

[PDF][PDF] How consistent are altmetrics providers? Study of 1000 PLOS ONE publications using the PLOS ALM, Mendeley and Altmetric. com APIs

Z Zahedi, M Fenner, R Costas - … at the Web …, 2014 - pfigshare-u-files.s3.amazonaws.com
Altmetrics track the impact of scholarly works on the social web. The term was introduced in
2010 (Priem, et al.) as an alternative way of measuring the broader research impact of …

Do altmetric scores reflect article quality? Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021

M Thelwall, K Kousha, M Abdoli, E Stuart… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Altmetrics are web‐based quantitative impact or attention indicators for academic articles
that have been proposed to supplement citation counts. This article reports the first …

Social media and altmetrics: An overview of current alternative approaches to measuring scholarly impact

K Weller - Incentives and performance: Governance of research …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter describes the current state of the art in altmetrics research and practice.
Altmetrics—evaluation methods of scholarly activities that serve as alternatives to citation …

Altmetrics–a complement to conventional metrics

R Melero - Biochemia medica, 2015 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Emerging metrics based on article-level does not exclude traditional metrics based
on citations to the journal, but complements them. Both can be employed in conjunction to …

New perspectives on article-level metrics: developing ways to assess research uptake and impact online

J Liu, E Adie - Insights, 2013 - account.insights.uksg.org
Altmetrics were born from a desire to see and measure research impact differently.
Complementing traditional citation analysis, altmetrics are intended to reflect more broad …

Could scientists use Altmetric. com scores to predict longer term citation counts?

M Thelwall, T Nevill - Journal of informetrics, 2018 - Elsevier
Altmetrics from Altmetric. com are widely used by publishers and researchers to give earlier
evidence of attention than citation counts. This article assesses whether Altmetric. com …

Measuring social media activity of scientific literature: An exhaustive comparison of scopus and novel altmetrics big data

SU Hassan, M Imran, U Gillani, NR Aljohani… - Scientometrics, 2017 - Springer
This paper measures social media activities of 15 broad scientific disciplines indexed in
Scopus database using Altmetric. com data. First, the presence of Altmetric. com data in …

Using altmetrics to support research evaluation

M Thelwall - Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and …, 2018 - Springer
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 …