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Here are some places people have written about altmetrics. Feel free to let us know about others.

2012

“Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment”, The Guardian
“Altmetrics for Librarians and Institutions” (part 2), Swets Blog
“Altmetrics: quality of engagement matters as much as retweets”, The Guardian
“Measuring the impact of altmetrics”, IEEE Spectrum
“Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online”, The Chronicle of Higher Education
“How Could Twitter Influence Science (And Why Scientists Are on Board)”, Forbes
“New Ways to Measure Science”, Social Dimension, Wired Science Blogs

2011

“Peer review: Trial by Twitter,” Nature News
“Altered states for the lawmakers of the new measurement frontier,” Times Higher Education
“As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter and other online activity”, London School of Economics, Impact of Social Sciences
“Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web: altmetrics”, BMJ Web Development Blog

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latest #altmetrics references
- Altmetrics and Institutional Repositories: A Health Sciences Library Experiment
  Lisa Palmer et al.Published using Mendeley: The library management tool for researchers […]
- 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. […]
- Assessing non-standard article impact using F1000 labels
  Scientometrics (2013). Ehsan Mohammadi, Mike Thelwall et al.Published using Mendeley: The research tool for desktop & web […]
- Reforming research assessment
  eLife (2013). Pages: e00855-e00855. R. Schekman, M. Patterson et al.Published using Mendeley: The research tool for desktop & web […]
- 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 […]
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