Since new publishing models and new communication channels are being
developed, recent information and communication technologies change the ways of
scholarly communication. Traditional ways of measuring journal and article impact
are not sufficient – besides bibliometrics (based on citation analysis), altmetrics arises
as a new method based on quantitative analysis of mentions on blogs, in the news,
shares on social networking sites, captures etc. The field of altmetrics is still new and
further research still has to be done to find out if altmetric indicators are reliable
quantitative measure of scholarly literature quality.
Journal of Informetrics (JOI) publishes rigorous high-quality research on quantitative aspects of information science. The main focus of the journal...
Altmetric is a small London-based start-up focused on making article level metrics easy. We believe that:
Scientists should be able to see which recent papers their peers think are interesting
Authors should be able to quantify the attention their articles are receiving
Publishers should be able to show authors and readers the conversations happening around their content
Editors should be able to quickly identify commentary where a response is required
F. Luo, A. Sun, M. Erdt, A. Raamkumar, and Y. Theng. ASIST, volume 54 of Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, page 251-259. Wiley, (2017)
A. Pacheco, A. Medeiros, {. Yanai, S. Lopes, and L. Machado. Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM'18), Salamanca, University of Salamanca, (October 2018)