Today, it is not clear how the impact of research on other areas of society than science
should be measured. While peer review and bibliometrics have become standard methods …

Altmetrics is an emergent research area whereby social media is applied as a source of
metrics to assess scholarly impact. In the last few years, the interest in altmetrics has grown …

An extensive analysis of the presence of different altmetric indicators provided by Altmetric.
com across scientific fields is presented, particularly focusing on their relationship with …

Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for
indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary …

This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated T witter accounts
distributing links to scientific articles deposited on the preprint repository ar X iv. It discusses …

The explosion of scientific literature in recent years 1 makes it increasingly important and
difficult for clinicians to identify high-quality articles relevant to their practice, research …

Software is increasingly crucial to scholarship, yet the visibility and usefulness of software in
the scientific record are in question. Just as with data, the visibility of software in publications …

Altmetrics from Altmetric. com are widely used by publishers and researchers to give earlier
evidence of attention than citation counts. This article assesses whether Altmetric. com …

Altmetrics measure the digital attention received by a research output. They allow us to
gauge the immediate social impact of an article by taking real-time measurements of how it …

Medical research is highly funded and often expensive and so is particularly important to
evaluate effectively. Nevertheless, citation counts may accrue too slowly for use in some …