Exploring the Boundaries: How Altmetrics Can Expand Our Vision of Scholarly Communication and Social Impact

Michael, Taylor

doi:10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.05

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“…PlumX, ImpactStory, Altmetrics and Scholarometer [23]. Finally, the authors of [24] conclude that the potential of altmetrics is nothing short of a complete map of scholarly activity and influence.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 96%

What does Twitter Measure?

Barthel

Tönnies

Köhncke

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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The most important goal for digital libraries is to ensure high quality search experience for all kinds of users. To attain this goal, it is necessary to have as much relevant metadata as possible at hand to assess the quality of publications. Recently, a new group of metrics appeared, that has the potential to raise the quality of publication metadata to the next level -the altmetrics. These metrics try to reflect the impact of publications within the social web. However, currently it is still unclear if and how altmetrics should be used to assess the quality of a publication and how altmetrics are related to classical bibliographical metrics (like e.g. citations). To gain more insights about what kind of concepts are reflected by altmetrics, we conducted an in-depth analysis on a real world dataset crawled from the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Especially, we analyzed if the common approach to regard the users in the social web as one homogeneous group is sensible or if users need to be divided into diverse groups in order to receive meaningful results.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 96%

What does Twitter Measure?

Barthel

Tönnies

Köhncke

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…As well as measuring the impact of products, altmetrics can also be used to track a variety of scholarly activities such as teaching and service activities (Rodgers & Barbrow, 2013). For example, the impact of course packs and reading lists or attendance at online open courses (MOOCs) can be measured (Taylor, 2013a).…”

Section: Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…founded to collect and provide altmetrics (Fenner, 2013a). Against the background of this development Bornmann (2014) and Taylor (2013a) are talking about a revolution in scientometrics, Lin and Fenner (2013) about a new paradigm of research assessment and Kurtz and Bollen (2010) about a renaissance in bibliometrics with, notably, a new definition of the expression "impact of science". According to Galloway, Pease, and Rauh (2013) "altmetrics is a fast-moving and dynamic area".…”

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confidence: 99%

Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics

Bornmann

2014

Journal of Informetrics

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a b s t r a c tToday, it is not clear how the impact of research on other areas of society than science should be measured. While peer review and bibliometrics have become standard methods for measuring the impact of research in science, there is not yet an accepted framework within which to measure societal impact. Alternative metrics (called altmetrics to distinguish them from bibliometrics) are considered an interesting option for assessing the societal impact of research, as they offer new ways to measure (public) engagement with research output. Altmetrics is a term to describe web-based metrics for the impact of publications and other scholarly material by using data from social media platforms (e.g. Twitter or Mendeley). This overview of studies explores the potential of altmetrics for measuring societal impact. It deals with the definition and classification of altmetrics. Furthermore, their benefits and disadvantages for measuring impact are discussed.

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“…Citations, publications, and usage are combined to develop models that can capture the weight of each one and provide better understanding of the relationship between them and how they can be applied to an institution and individual's assessments (Bollen & Van De Sompel, 2008). Usage-based indicators are, jointly with measures of the number of mentions an article receives in social platforms (Adie & Roe, 2013;Barjak, Li, & Thelwall, 2007;Taylor, 2013), sometimes labeled as "altmetrics. "…”

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confidence: 99%

On full text download and citation distributions in scientific‐scholarly journals

Moed

Halevi

2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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A statistical analysis of full text downloads of articles in Elsevier's ScienceDirect covering all disciplines reveals large differences in download frequencies, their skewness, and their correlation with Scopus-based citation counts, between disciplines, journals, and document types. Download counts tend to be two orders of magnitude higher and less skewedly distributed than citations. A mathematical model based on the sum of two exponentials does not adequately capture monthly download counts. The degree of correlation at the article level within a journal is similar to that at the journal level in the discipline covered by that journal, suggesting that the differences between journals are to a large extent discipline-specific. Despite the fact that in all study journals download and citation counts per article positively correlate, little overlap may exist between the set of articles appearing in the top of the citation distribution and that with the most frequently downloaded ones. Usage and citation leaks, bulk downloading, differences between reader and author populations in a subject field, the type of document or its content, differences in obsolescence patterns between downloads and citations, different functions of reading and citing in the research process, all provide possible explanations of differences between download and citation distributions.

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Exploring the Boundaries: How Altmetrics Can Expand Our Vision of Scholarly Communication and Social Impact

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

What does Twitter Measure?

What does Twitter Measure?

Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics

On full text download and citation distributions in scientific‐scholarly journals

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