Social Media and Altmetrics: An Overview of Current Alternative Approaches to Measuring Scholarly Impact

Weller, Katrin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09785-5_16

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“…The h-index, for example, has gained some traction as a measure of citation impact, but relies on a more complicated underlying formula and is insensitive to discipline-dependent factors (see Haustein and Larivière 2015 for discussion). Usage-based measures, such as number of views, clicks, or downloads, are also growing in popularity, though they are perhaps more susceptible to fraudulent inflation than IF scores (Weller 2015). Normalized indicators, such as the journal-to-field impact score, compare journal citations to the average citation rate of journals within a particular field, cancelling out some of the discipline-dependent variation which plagues other measures.…”

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Journal Citation Metrics in Forestry Research

AylingMatthew

2015

The Forestry Chronicle

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Journal Citation Metrics in Forestry Research

AylingMatthew

2015

The Forestry Chronicle

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“…The researcher profile is not merely an ephemeral snapshot at a specific point in time, but instead it serves as a scholarly portrait of a scientist, and has a great potential to promote the scholar's oeuvre, discoverability, reputation, and, in the long run, citations. Scholarly social media platforms generally interpret science in the broadest sense and encourage open access to not only scholarly articles, but presentations, data sets, negative results, grey literature, notes, drafts, and so on (Piwowar, 2013;Priem, Taraborelli, Groth, & Neylon, 2010;Weller, 2015). Often granting access to full-text articles, the "scholarly selfie"…”

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Scholarly social media profiles and libraries

Ward¹,

Bejarano²,

Dudás³

2021

LIBER

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This article aims to point out emerging roles and responsibilities for academic librarians with the potential of better integrating the library in the research process. In order to find out how to enhance the online reputation and discoverability of individual faculty members as well as their affiliated institutions, the authors worked side-by-side with researchers in the United States and Europe to explore, create, revise, and disambiguate scholarly profiles in various software applications. In an attempt to understand and organize scholarly social media, including new, alternative metrics, the authors reviewed and classified the major academic profile platforms, highlighting the overlapping elements, benefits, and drawbacks inherent in each. The consensus is that it would be time-consuming to keep one's profile current and accurate on all of these platforms, given the plethora of underlying problems, also discussed in detail in the article. However, it came as a startling discovery that reluctance to engage with scholarly social Judit Ward et al. Liber Quarterly Volume 24 Issue 4 2015175 media may cause a misrepresentation of a researcher's academic achievements and may come with unforeseen consequences. The authors claim that current skills and competencies can secure an essential role for academic librarians in the research workflow by means of monitoring and navigating researcher profiles in scholarly social media in order to best represent the scholarship of their host institutions.

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“…Finally, we performed an analysis of article impact based on altmetrics; that is, alternative metrics for measuring scholarly impact that rely on different user activities in social media platforms and tools (Erdt, Nagarajan, Sin, & Theng, 2016;Piwowar, 2013;Weller, 2015). In other words, altmetrics measure the interactions happening on the Internet and the social media and employ new procedures to measure the impact of authorship and publication (Ebrahimy, Mehrad, Setareh, & Hosseinchari, 2016).…”

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The early adulthood of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management: A literature review 2005–2014

2018

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This research represents a comprehensive review of the articles published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) between 2005 and 2014, the journal's early Badulthood.^It provides an overview of the evolution of this body of research across different dimensions: types of articles, international scope of the research, contributing scholars and institutions, scientific collaboration and non-academic cooperation paths as APJM developed as an Academy of Management associated journal. It also analyzes the impact of its published articles on the research field-based on traditional direct, indirect, and weighted impact measurements as well as on alternative metrics-and the journal's performance. APJM's early adulthood was featured by rapid and positive changes in terms of numbers, reach, international scope, scientific collaboration, article impact, and overall journal performance. Furthermore, the journal is currently ranked among the better management journals worldwide and has become the first among all management journals with a declared regional focus. Some hurdles remain and new challenges must be faced; among them, increasing the volume of conceptual works and developing the journal's scope by publishing a higher number of pieces of research dealing with organization and management issues relevant from a global (not only regional) perspective and continuing the journal's general improvement and growth.

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Social Media and Altmetrics: An Overview of Current Alternative Approaches to Measuring Scholarly Impact

Cited by 53 publications

References 42 publications

Journal Citation Metrics in Forestry Research

Journal Citation Metrics in Forestry Research

Scholarly social media profiles and libraries

The early adulthood of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management: A literature review 2005–2014

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