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Altmetrics for Information Professionals
Past, Present and Future
1st Edition - September 3, 2015
Author: Kim Johan Holmberg
Paperback ISBN:9780081002735
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eBook ISBN:9780081002773
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The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure,… Read more
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The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure, citations are used as a proxy. Citations are an important part of scholarly communication and a significant component of research evaluation, with the assumption being that highly cited work has influenced the work of many other researchers and hence it is more valuable. Recently we have seen new online data sources being researched for this purpose and disruptive ideas with the power to change research assessment, and perhaps even science as a whole, have been born. Altmetrics is the new research area that investigates the potential of these new data source as indicators of the impact that research has made on the scientific community and beyond, and thus possibly also as indicators of the societal impact of research. This book will present some of these new data sources, findings from earlier altmetrics research, and the disruptive ideas that may radically change scholarly communication.
Presents some of the key ideas and innovations in earlier research that have been driving the evolution from bibliometrics to webometrics, and with the advent of social media to altmetrics
Discusses the shortcomings and pitfalls of bibliometrics in research evaluation and the potential of altmetrics to overcome some of these shortcomings
Presents some of the most important data sources of altmetrics, the aggregators, and the different stakeholders
Reviews current research about altmetrics and discusses possible future trends
Presents a way to measure and aggregate altmetrics according to the level of impact or type of impact they represent
Information professionals, students and researchers studying Altmetrics
Dedication
About the Author
Introduction
Altmetrics
Outline of this book
1: The Past
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Scholarly Communication
3 Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics
3.1 Bibliometric laws
3.2 Co-word analysis
3.3 Bibliometric analysis
3.4 Citing behavior
3.5 Citation-based research evaluation
3.6 The interest in societal impact of research
4 Webometrics
4.1 The hyperlink
4.2 Webometric research
5 Social Media
5.1 Big data
5.2 Analyzing social media
5.3 Key performance indicators
6 Conclusions
2: The Present
Abstract
7 Introduction
8 Scholarly Communication and Other Scholarly Activities in Social Media
8.1 New research ideas
8.2 Data collection
8.3 Analyzing the data
8.4 Disseminating research products
8.5 How do researchers use the web for scholarly communication?
9 The Potential and Critique of Altmetrics
9.1 The potential of altmetrics
9.2 The critique
10 The Altmetrics
10.1 Impact
10.2 Data sources of altmetrics
10.3 Service providers
11 Stakeholders
11.1 Researchers
11.2 Universities
11.3 Libraries
11.4 Publishers
11.5 Funders
11.6 The general public
12 Conclusions
3: The Future
Abstract
13 Introduction
14 Meaning and Validity of Altmetrics
14.1 Creating altmetrics
14.2 Detecting altmetrics
14.3 Measuring reach
14.4 Measuring impact
15 Pushing the Envelope
16 Concerns for the Future
16.1 Lack of standards
16.2 Gaming altmetrics
17 Future Research
18 Conclusions
References
Index
No. of pages: 170
Language: English
Published: September 3, 2015
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
Paperback ISBN: 9780081002735
eBook ISBN: 9780081002773
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Kim Johan Holmberg
Kim Holmberg is a research associate at the Research Unit for the Sociology of Education at the University of Turku, Finland, where he works on questions related to bibliometrics, altmetrics, open science and social media. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and an Adjunct Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His academic background includes periods as a postdoc researcher at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has worked on topics such as hyperlink networks, climate change communications in social media, disciplinary differences in online scholarly communication, and educational use of virtual environments. Recently his research has focused on investigating the meaning and validity of altmetrics.
Affiliations and expertise
Research associate, Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, University of Turku, Finland