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    Altmetrics: Measuring the Broader Impact of Scientific Research
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2015-07-01) Pradhan, Pallab
    Measuring the impact of scientific research of individuals and institutions is a necessity and a challenging task for institutions, funding agencies and the government so as to draw a well-informed policy framework and draw pathways for future directions. While peer-review and citation-based bibliometrics indicators have become global means of measuring research output and are playing a critical role in this process. However, citations have been criticized for limiting their scope within academic and neglecting the broader societal impact of research. The Article-level-metrics (ALM) or altmetrics has emerged as an alternative metrics (alternative to bibliometrics) to fill-in the gap and setting a new trend in recent times for measuring the impact of scientific publications and their social outreach on web. Altmetrics is the new metrics for measuring research impact based on the data penetration on the web and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Mendeley and CiteULike, etc. This paper provides an overview on altmetrics, its definitions, its data sources and available tools, merits and demerits, difference between altmetrics and bibliometrics, etc. Lastly, the article outlines possibilities of implementing altmetrics in publications-based services offered by the INFLIBNET Centre.
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    Data Repositories in India with Specific Reference to "ICSSR Data Service: Indian Social Science Data Repository"
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-07-01) Pradhan, Pallab
    The raw research data / datasets used in the process of research analysis has immense inheritance value as like the research results itself. So, it is very evident and becoming very important to collect, store and manage such data / datasets properly for further reuse. In this regard, data repositories are becoming the trend setters in research data management and playing a great role for facilitating open access to data & promoting data sharing. Currently, hundreds of data repositories are available on the web covering a wide range of disciplines from around the world; and India is not an exception to it. The ICSSR Data Service has been initiated by ICSSR, New Delhi with aim to promote data sharing at a national level and to provide open access to social science research data / datasets hugely generated by various social science research institutes in the country. This article elaborates the current status of data repositories in the country, specifically the "ICSSR Data Service: Indian Social Science Data Repository". Further, it enumerates in details about ICSSR Data Service i.e. its objectives, development, current status, its features & functionalities, datasets, etc. Also, it explores the in-built online "ICSSR Data Analytics" and visualization tool developed using "R" language.
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    Science Mapping and Visualization Tools used in Bibliometric & Scientometric Studies: An Overview
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2017-01-01) Pradhan, Pallab
    Science mapping and visualization techniques are used for data analysis in bibliometric and scientometric studies. Science mapping and visualization helps to explore the scientific knowledge, make it livelier by visualizing and showcasing the impact of research by displaying the structural relationship and dynamics of scientific research domains. Various software tools have been developed incorporating different science mapping and visualization techniques. This article briefly presents features and functions of such software tools used for data analysis in bibliometric and scientometric studies.