Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature

CR Sugimoto, S Work, V Larivière… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics

L Bornmann - Journal of informetrics, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Do “altmetrics” correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective

R Costas, Z Zahedi, P Wouters - Journal of the Association for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Resuscitation education science: educational strategies to improve outcomes from cardiac arrest: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

A Cheng, VM Nadkarni, MB Mancini, EA Hunt… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
The formula for survival in resuscitation describes educational efficiency and local
implementation as key determinants in survival after cardiac arrest. Current educational …

How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of 'alternative metrics' in scientific publications

Z Zahedi, R Costas, P Wouters - Scientometrics, 2014 - Springer
In this paper an analysis of the presence and possibilities of altmetrics for bibliometric and
performance analysis is carried out. Using the web based tool Impact Story, we collected …

R esearch G ate: Disseminating, communicating, and measuring Scholarship?

M Thelwall, K Kousha - Journal of the Association for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
R esearch G ate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their
publications, and interact with each other. Like Academia. edu, it provides a new way for …

Alternative metrics in scientometrics: A meta-analysis of research into three altmetrics

L Bornmann - Scientometrics, 2015 - Springer
Alternative metrics are currently one of the most popular research topics in scientometric
research. This paper provides an overview of research into three of the most important …

Altmetrics: an analysis of the state-of-the-art in measuring research impact on social media

M Erdt, A Nagarajan, SCJ Sin, YL Theng - Scientometrics, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Measuring science: basic principles and application of advanced bibliometrics

A Van Raan - Springer handbook of science and technology …, 2019 - Springer
We begin with a short history of measuring science and discuss how the Science Citation
Index has revolutionized the quantitative study of science and created a strong application …

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of M endeley user categories

E Mohammadi, M Thelwall, S Haustein… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Little detailed information is known about who reads research articles and the contexts in
which research articles are read. Using data about people who register in M endeley as …