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 …

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 …

Online and virtual teaching–learning has been a panacea that most educational institutions
adopted from the dire need created by COVID-19. We provide a comprehensive bibliometric …

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 …

We critically assess a common approach to scholarly impact that relies almost exclusively on
a single stakeholder (ie, other academics). We argue that this approach is narrow and …

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 …

This paper analyzes Altmetric. com, one of the most important altmetric data providers
currently used. We have analyzed a set of publications with DOI number indexed in the Web …

This study considered all articles published in six Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals
in 2012 and Web of Science citations for these articles as of May 2015. A total of 2,406 …

Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although
altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not …

Can altmetric data be validly used for the measurement of societal impact? The current study
seeks to answer this question with a comprehensive dataset (about 100,000 records) from …