Uncovering impacts: A case study in using altmetrics tools

Jason Priem; Cristhian Parra; Heather Piwowar; Paul Groth; Andra Waagmeester

Uncovering impacts: A case study in using altmetrics tools

Jason Priem, Cristhian Parra, Heather Piwowar, Paul Groth, Andra Waagmeester

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Abstract

Growing scholarly use of Web tools present an opportunity to track alternative impacts along heretofore invisible paths like reading, bookmarking, and discussing. We present two tools, CitedIn and total-impact, that gather and report these and other "altmetrics" After discussing the tools features, we use a set of 214 articles from a national research center as a demonstration case study. We find that both tools present a meaningful number and variety of altmetrics in a form that could be used for immediate evaluation, and call for more research into the properties and validity of altmetrics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	40-44
Number of pages	5
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	903
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd Workshop on Semantic Publishing, SePublica 2012 - Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Duration: May 28 2012 → May 28 2012

Keywords

Altmetrics
Impact
Scholarly communication
Tools

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