2019
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2988-z
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Do altmetrics work for assessing research quality?

Abstract: Alternative metrics (aka altmetrics) are gaining increasing interest in the scientometrics community as they can capture both the volume and quality of attention that a research work receives online. Nevertheless, there is limited knowledge about their effectiveness as a mean for measuring the impact of research if compared to traditional citation-based indicators. This work aims at rigorously investigating if any correlation exists among indicators, either traditional (i.e. citation count and hindex) or alter… Show more

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“…Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics that cover not just citation counts but also downloads, social media shares, and other measures of the impact of research outputs [65]. Altmetrics measures the broader impact of research on society [5,7,8,[66][67][68][69][70], especially by using a much wider set of resources, including social media posts, press releases, news articles, and political debates stemming from academic work, as well as assesses wider non-academic impact [6]. In 2014, Bornmannanalyzed the advantages and disadvantages of measuring the impact of using altmetrics [4].…”
Section: Altmetricsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics that cover not just citation counts but also downloads, social media shares, and other measures of the impact of research outputs [65]. Altmetrics measures the broader impact of research on society [5,7,8,[66][67][68][69][70], especially by using a much wider set of resources, including social media posts, press releases, news articles, and political debates stemming from academic work, as well as assesses wider non-academic impact [6]. In 2014, Bornmannanalyzed the advantages and disadvantages of measuring the impact of using altmetrics [4].…”
Section: Altmetricsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this study we use the altmetrics provided by Plum Analytics 2 (PlumX) which is one of the leading platforms that provides altmetrics (Nuzzolese 2019). It is a provider of alternative metrics created in 2012 and covers more than 52.6M of artifacts, metrics and sources of metrics that are collected into five separate categories: (i) Citations: contain both traditional citation indexes such as Scopus, as well as citations that help indicate societal impact such as Clinical or Policy Citations.…”
Section: Scientometric Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mining these data may provide useful insights as an alternative to traditional citation metrics (Priem et al, 2011). Although the popularity of altmetric techniques has been increasing (Nuzzolese et al, 2019), there is a lack of information and evidence on their effectiveness, and the major outstanding challenges are to ensure the use of standards and best practice (Haustein et al, 2015;Bornmann et al, 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%