What metrics?
Altmetrics!
Bianca Kramer
November 2014
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H-index
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/06/08/demise-impact-factor-relationship-citation-1970s/
Changes in scientific communication
• Open Access
• Data management requirements
• New forms of peer review (open & post)
• Megajournals (e.g. PLOS One)
Are your findings accepted,
built upon, spread and cited,
applied or bought?
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http://blog.impactstory.org/2012/09/14/31524247207
http://impactstory.org/hollybik
http://impactstory.org/hollybik
Limitations
data quality
normalization
coverage
indicator
quality
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/10/08/mit-sociology/
hands-on:
http://libguides.library.uu.nl/altmetrics