Altmetrics: New indicators for scientific communication in Web 2.0

Altmetrics: New Indicators for Scientific Communication in Web 2.0

This paper presents a review of altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept is defined as the creation and study of new indicators for analysing scientific and academic research activity based on Web 2.0. The underlying premise is that variables such as mentions in blogs, number of tweets or saves of an article by researchers in reference management systems, may be a valid measure of the us...

Altmetrics : complexities , challenges and new forms of measuring and comprehending scientific communication

Objective. It aims to discuss some aspects of altmetria, an area commonly associated with metrics such as bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics, but with important differences in order to contribute to its own understanding, institutionalization and consolidation. Method. The article is a theoretical approach on the subject altmetria, being elaborated from a set of texts selected in int...

Scientific competition, impact factor, and Altmetrics

New indicators for gender studies in Web networks

New indicators for gender studies are introduced using the multi-authored publications of a set of 64 members of the COLLNET network. Considering the sample of 223 papers and their visibility on the Web, analyses were performed on the sets comprised of publications on the one hand and the authors (social network analysis) on the other. The indicators developed include: Gender co-operation; Web ...

Stratifying Altmetrics Indicators Based on Impact Generation Model

Introduction Altmetrics has been a shelter for all possible alternative indicators corresponding to traditional citation-based indicators, with extra focus on online indicators. Altmetrics has been discussed in variety of contexts, such as open science (Mounce, 2013), institutional depositories (Adie, Francois, & Nixon, 2014), publishing industry (Piwowar, 2013) and scholarly communication refo...