2018
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501031
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Are there different types of online research impact?

Abstract: While web‐based indicators for scientific impact – so‐called altmetrics – have an increasing uptake as means for research evaluation, many questions regarding their actual meanings remain unanswered. In this article we analyse the data from a survey about researchers' use of 107 online actions that underlie potential altmetrics to discover whether certain types of altmetrics (1) better reflect the judgments of researchers from certain career stages and (2) more reliably capture positive judgments than others. … Show more

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“…To recruit researchers as interviewees, we resorted to a subset of the participants of the * metrics project's 1 first international survey on social media usage from spring 2017 [see also (Lemke et al, 2018;Mehrazar et al, 2018)]. Like in this study, the 2017 survey's prioritized target groups during dissemination had been researchers from Economics, Social Sciences and respective sub-disciplines, which subsequently accounted for 83% of the survey's 3,427 respondents.…”
Section: Interviews: Samplingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…To recruit researchers as interviewees, we resorted to a subset of the participants of the * metrics project's 1 first international survey on social media usage from spring 2017 [see also (Lemke et al, 2018;Mehrazar et al, 2018)]. Like in this study, the 2017 survey's prioritized target groups during dissemination had been researchers from Economics, Social Sciences and respective sub-disciplines, which subsequently accounted for 83% of the survey's 3,427 respondents.…”
Section: Interviews: Samplingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both questionnaires were implemented and distributed using the online survey tool LimeSurvey 2 The sampling process followed the approach of the 2017 survey described in Lemke et al (2018): a mailing list administered by the ZBW Leibniz Centre for Economics was used to contact about 12,000 researchers working in economic institutions from German-speaking parts of Europe; further invitations were sent to about 42,000 email addresses of authors of Economics-or Social Science-related papers mined from RePEc and Web of Science. As we had divided our questions into two surveys as described above, we also divided these 54,000 mail addresses randomly into two lists of 27,000 addresses, each group receiving an invitation to one of our two surveys.…”
Section: Online Surveys: Samplingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Meanwhile, individual action metrics are used to count online engagements with scientific publications, for example, likes, mentions, shares, or retweets. But the need to pay attention to is the heterogeneity, as every single platform potentially imposes its own technical conditions, provides its own set of functionalities, and accommodates its own community of users [21,22]. Social media actions are performed for diverse purposes – even a seemingly one-dimensional action like a Facebook-‘Like’ [23].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Different online actions to express positive judgements are different, not just the more the better. For example, Lemke et al [22] found that likes on two distinct platforms seemed in most cases to be more similar to each other than likes and comments on the same platform, and likes being the most consistent and comments being the least consistent proxy for endorsement. Therefore, it is meaningful to compare online actions on multiple platforms in altmetrics research.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%