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Aug 08 2013

Interesting Articles on Altmetrics

Posted on August 8, 2013October 26, 2016 by Xiaomei Gu

In a previous post, we mentioned the concept of altmetrics briefly when introducing the Altmetric for Scopus feature in the Scopus database.  Below we are listing links to two thought-provoking articles on altmetrics, both published last week.

  • One appeared in Scientific American’s Information Culture blog. The author, Hadas Shema, is an Information Science graduate student at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
    Thoughts about altmetrics (an unorganized, overdue post)
  • Another is authored by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Denver. He has written extensively on predatory open access publishing in his blog.
    Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea

The following two blog posts published in 2012 are also interesting. Make sure to check out the comments, which are equally interesting.

  • Tweets, and Our Obsession with Alt Metrics published by Phil Davis in the Scholarly Kitchen.
  • Altmetrics: first we need the for what? and only then the how? OK? published by Martin Fenner in his PLOS blog, Gobbledygook.

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