Abstract Changes are occurring in scholarly communication and the geography of science.
Policymakersand research funding agencies are looking for ways to measure the …

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 …

This article provides an introduction to the use of altmetrics as a tool to assess research
impact. In particular, it looks at the evidence behind claims that altmetrics allow the impact of …

In recent years, researchers and academics in growing numbers are starting to move their
everyday work onto the Web, exploring new ways to spread, discuss, share and retrieve …

Altmetrics is an emerging measure for academic impact and it is gaining in global
importance. In this paper, we analyse the altmetric landscape of Singapore, a young nation …

This explorative case study uses ImpactStory and Webometric Analyst to download altmetric
indicators for publications of institutes of the multidisciplinary Leibniz Association. The …

Abstract Editor's Summary The ASIS&T Bulletin special section on altmetrics presents
alternative metrics as a new and critically needed approach to measuring the impact of …

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

Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although
altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not …

Quantitative measurement in library arena for the impact of researches has travelled a lot
from bibliometrics to citation metrics and for article level and author level assessment upto h …