"Altmetrics"

Do altmetrics follow the crowd or does the crowd follow altmetrics?

Changes are occurring in scholarly communication as scientific discourse and research activities spread across various social media platforms. In this paper, we study altmetrics on the article and journal levels, investigating whether the online …

Altmetrics for Country-Level Research Assessment

Changes are occurring in scholarly communication and the geography of science.Policymakersand research funding agencies are looking for ways to measure the comprehensive impact of research and benefit from the research experiences of other nations. …

Can Social Reference Management Systems Predict a Ranking of Scholarly Venues?

New scholarly venues (e.g., conferences and journals) are emerging as research fields expand. Ranking these new venues is imperative to assist researchers, librarians, and research institutions. However, rankings based on traditional citation-based …