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Altmetrics For The Information Professional: A Primer, Linda M. Galloway, Janet L. Pease
Altmetrics For The Information Professional: A Primer, Linda M. Galloway, Janet L. Pease
Linda M. Galloway
Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provide researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across a wide range of media and platforms. From deciding what to read based on tweets, to enhancing scholarship with collaboration, altmetrics will exert more and more influence on the scholarly landscape. Awareness of altmetric tools, and the ways in which they can be used, will position information professionals at the forefront of this exciting new era in knowledge dissemination and assessment.
As social media plays an ever increasing role in the communication of scholarship, the authors will discuss how altmetrics can be a valuable …
Social Media And Citation Metrics, Linda M. Galloway, Anne E. Rauh
Social Media And Citation Metrics, Linda M. Galloway, Anne E. Rauh
Linda M. Galloway
Quantifying scholarly output via traditional citation metrics is the time-honored method to gauge academic success. However, as the tentacles of social media spread into professional personas, scholars are interacting more frequently and more meaningfully with these tools. Measuring the influence and impact of scholarly engagement with online tools and networks is gaining importance in academia today.
Assessing the impact of a scholar’s work can be measured by evaluating several factors including the number of peer-reviewed publications, citations to these publications and the influence of the publications. These metrics take a relatively long time to accumulate, some are available only via …