Interpreting ‘Altmetrics’: Viewing Acts on Social Media through the Lens of Citation and Social Theories

Which gender gap? Factors affecting researchers’ scientific impact in science and medicine

“…With the increasing importance of altmetrics (Bowman, 2015;Haustein et al, 2016;Piwowar, 2013;Priem, 2014) and of the need to market one's research on the conference circuit and via social media (Van Noorden, 2014), time and the disposable income to go to conferences, to pay someone to feed information towards increasing one's social media visibility and to some extent to do research marketing may be more limited to women. Women may not have shown as much interest in this regard as their male colleagues.…”

Performance Behavior Patterns in Author-Level Metrics: A Disciplinary Comparison of Google Scholar Citations, ResearchGate, and ImpactStory

“…The literature has previously discussed that the motivations behind social media mentions are complex and diverse (Priem and Costello, 2010;Haustein et al, 2016). The heterogeneity of social media metrics consequently comprises and brings up a wide diversity of acts and online events (Haustein, 2016).…”

Study on Most Prolific Authors’ and their Association with Citation

“…It was found that among the new media tools Mendeley readership count is storngly correalted with Citation count. [11,12,21] Though new media tools are highly used in various environment to disseminate information; still these channals are in nascent stage. From the data its evident that all the altmetric variable do not have same kind of proximity with the sample subject area; baring few variables.…”