SUGGESTED READINGS

“Altmetrics: A Manifesto” J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010)

An early argument for re-evaluating the way that we measure scholarly impact in a digital environment.

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol 39, no. 4. “Special Section: What, Why And Where”

The ASIS&T Bulletin special section on altmetrics presents alternative metrics as a new and critically needed approach to measuring the impact of scholarly research.

https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15508366/2013/39/4

Journal of Altmetrics

The Journal of Altmetrics is an Open Access, international, peer reviewed journal in the areas of alternative metrics (i.e., altmetrics), as they pertain to Scholarly, Social Media, and Science communications as well as Research Policy & Higher Education.

https://www.journalofaltmetrics.org/

PLOS Altmetrics collection

This collection gathers an emerging body of research to seed further study of altmetrics, covering a range of subjects including statistical analysis of altmetrics data sources; metric validation, and identification of biases in measurements; validation of models of scientific discovery/recommendation based on altmetrics; qualitative research describing the scholarly use of online tools and environments; empirically-supported theory guiding altmetrics' uses; and other research relating to scholarly impact in online tools and environments.

https://collections.plos.org/collection/altmetrics/

Useful Tools

The Altmetric Bookmarklet: https://www.altmetric.com/products/free-tools/bookmarklet/

The Altmetric Detail Page: https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/altmetric-details-page/

The Altmetric Top 100: https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/altmetric-top-100/

How to Read the 'Donut': https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/the-donut-and-score/