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.
The article linked below was recently published by the International Journal of Educational Research Open. Title Learning Analytics: a Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature Over the Last Decade Authors Source International Journal of Educational Research Open Volumes 2–2, 2021, 100084 DOI: 10.
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)