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