Tag Archives for Altmetrics
Blogging/Microblogging for enhancing the research accessibility
Scholarly blogs and Microblogs such as Twitter are increasingly attracting attention as new channels of science communication. Blogs and microblogging services like Twitter get your research seen by more nonacademics than your peer reviewed papers will ever be. The importance … Continue reading
What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield
There is a growing interest in using and analyzing altmetric data for quantifying the impact of research, especially societal impact (Bornmann, 2014, Thelwall et al., 2016, Haunschild and Bornmann, 2017). This study therefore aimed to explore the usefulness of Altmetric.com … Continue reading
Metrics: Human-Made, but Humane?
The basic notion that we can and should apply standardized criteria for intellectual achievement and contribution is central to much of contemporary education. In higher education, such standardization in the form of metrical evaluation is patently biased, as any number … Continue reading
Altmetrics, Legacy Scholarship, and Scholarly Legacy
When using alternative metrics (altmetrics) to investigate the impact of a scholar’s work, researchers and librarians are typically cautioned that altmetrics will be less useful for older works of scholarship. This is because it is difficult to collect social media … Continue reading
Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow Sharing Session
Academic and research librarians increasingly recognize scholarly communication as a core competency of the profession. ACRL empowers the community through its workshop “Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement”. Read More
altmetrics17. The dependencies of altmetrics – The 2017 Altmetrics Workshop
This year’s workshop will focus on the dependencies of altmetrics, including the role of data providers and aggregators and the technical affordances of underlying platforms. Altmetrics are heavily shaped, if not completely driven, by data and thus by specific data … Continue reading
Exploring values-based (alt)metrics to enhance library services
This paper describes the HuMetricsHSS initiative, which calls for a major shift towards a values-based evaluation paradigm in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. HuMetricsHSS proposes that metrics only be used to measure a one’s progress towards embodying five core … Continue reading
Making the Mission Visible: Altmetrics and Nontraditional Publishing
Whereas traditional book and journal publishing remain the gold standard for many post-secondary institutions, nontraditional publishing is just as prolific at the flagship university in Maine. The university has strong land and sea grant missions that drive a broad research … Continue reading