{"id":1780,"date":"2013-08-08T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/?p=426"},"modified":"2013-08-08T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:28:13","slug":"interesting-articles-on-altmetrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/08\/08\/interesting-articles-on-altmetrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Articles on Altmetrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"scopus blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/2013\/02\/18\/measuring-scholarly-impact-altmetrics-and-altmetric-for-scopus\/\" >a previous post<\/a>, we mentioned the concept of altmetrics briefly when introducing the Altmetric for Scopus feature in the <a title=\"scopus\" href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.uiowa.edu\/scopus\" >Scopu<\/a>s database. \u00a0Below we are listing links to two thought-provoking articles on altmetrics, both published last week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One appeared in Scientific American\u2019s Information Culture blog. The author, Hadas Shema, is an Information Science graduate student at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.<br \/>\n<a title=\"SA blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/information-culture\/2013\/08\/03\/thoughts-about-altmetrics-an-unorganized-overdue-post\/\" >Thoughts about altmetrics (an unorganized, overdue post)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Another is authored by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Denver. He has written extensively on predatory open access publishing in<a title=\"beall blog\" href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/\" > his blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"beall blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/2013\/08\/01\/article-level-metrics\/\" >Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following two blog posts published in 2012 are also interesting. Make sure to check out the comments, which are equally interesting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2012\/01\/04\/tweets-and-our-obsession-with-alt-metrics\/\" >Tweets, and Our Obsession with Alt Metrics<\/a> published by Phil Davis in the <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/\" >Scholarly Kitchen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/mfenner\/2012\/11\/09\/altmetrics-first-we-need-the-for-what-and-only-then-the-how-ok\/\" >Altmetrics: first we need the for what? and only then the how? OK?<\/a>\u00a0published by Martin Fenner in his PLOS blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/mfenner\/\" >Gobbledygook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hardin Library offers workshops on a variety of subjects including how to find journals\u2019 Impact Factors and H indices. Our <a title=\"Hardin HOW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/workshop\/\" >Fall schedule<\/a> is coming soon. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, we mentioned the concept of altmetrics briefly when introducing the Altmetric for Scopus feature in the Scopus database. &nbsp;Below we are listing links to two thought-provoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}