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• Altmetrics to quantify the impact of scientific research published in open full text repositories
  Bertil Dorch et al.Measures of the impact of scientific research increasingly become tools for various administrative applications. Bibliometric measures of the impact of research typically rely on citation analyses, which may not be appropriately representing all areas of scholarship, e.g. Arts and humanities. Metrics alternative to citation analyses are re […]
• Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics
  Pages: 4. Scott Lapinski, Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem et al.As scholars migrate into online spaces like Mendeley, blogs, Twitter, and more, they leave new traces of once-invisible interactions like reading, saving, discussing, and recommending. Observing these traces can inform new metrics of scholarly influence and impact -- so-called "altmetrics. […]
• Just say no to impact factors | Science | guardian.co.uk
  No description available.Published using Mendeley: The research tool for desktop & web […]
• Head Start: Improving Academic Literature Search with Overview Visualizations based on Readership Statistics
  Web Science 2013 (2013). Peter Kraker, Kris Jack, Christian Schlögl, Christoph Trattner, Stefanie Lindstaedt et al.At the beginning of a scientific study, it is usually quite hard to get an overview of a research field. We aim to address this problem of classic literature search using web data. In this extended abstract, we present work-in-progress on an int […]
• Download vs. Citation vs. Readership Data: The Case of an Information Systems Journal
  14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (2013). Christian Schloegl, Juan Gorraiz, Christian Gumpendorfer, Kris Jack, Peter Kraker et al.Published using Mendeley: The research paper manager […]