REALM: A Framework to Explore Research Impacts by Social Network Analysis, Bibliometrics, and Altmetrics

Abstract

Currently, there is a big concern of governments and research institutes on evaluating the population awareness about scientific innovations, such as new food-production technologies and the development of drugs. Unmet demand is to fi nd new methods to measure the impact of scientific research and its social outreach. This work presents an Altmetrics-based framework to map the research impacts using alternative metrics based on the exchange of scientific knowledge on social media and online environments. This master thesis contributed to the ZIKAlliance consortium, enabling an online platform to monitor the scientific evolution and its social perception on the Zika epidemic.