Gaming the scholarly metrics - lessons for altmetrics

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Gaming the scholarly metrics - lessons for altmetrics
poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca
How to game the impact factor - and why altmetrics development needs to consider gaming, both as potential distortion of the metrics per se, and more importantly, whether the need to score well on metrics changes what people research and how they approach this work.
Posted by heathermorrison to altmetrics oa.new on Sat Oct 13 2012 at 04:00 UTC | info | related