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Altmetrics: A Manifesto, Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli, Paul Groth, Cameron Neylon
Altmetrics: A Manifesto, Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli, Paul Groth, Cameron Neylon
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No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these alt-metrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning eco-system. We call for more tools and research based on altmetrics.