Altmetrics: The Emerging Alternative Metrics for Web Research Analysis
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2016-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The use of web 2.0 is becoming the essential part of present day life. People are spending
time for many purposes and academic activities among these uses of web 2.0 social
media services by users are prominent for searching, sharing, discussing, and messaging
of scholarly content. The wider use of social media has given birth to various buzz
words and ‘altmetrics’ is one of them. In simple words, altmetrics provides online measurement
of scholars or scholarly content derived from the web 2.0 social media platforms.
Altmetrics is diversified in nature and categorised in five categories i.e. (i) recommended
(ii) cited (iii) saved (iv) discussed and (v) viewed. Altmetrics are becoming
widely used by publishers (for showcasing research impact of authors over readers),
librarians and repository managers (for adding value to their libraries and institutional
repositories) and by the researchers (for complementing reading by instantly visualising
papers online attention).
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10th Convention PLANNER-2016, North-Eastern Hill University Shillong, Meghalaya, November 09-11, 2016
Keywords
Altmetrics, Article Level Metrics, Social Media