Open Access Week – Day 5 (Part 2): “Altmetrics”--Library News

“'Altmetrics', or alternative citation metrics, provide researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across evolving modes of scholarly communication. In 'The Altmetrics Collection,' Jason Priem, Paul Groth, and Dario Taraborelli define altmetrics as follows: Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments. The term has also been used to describe the metrics themselves—one could propose in plural a “set of new altmetrics.” Altmetrics is in most cases a subset of both scientometrics and webometrics; it is a subset of the latter in that it focuses more narrowly on scholarly influence as measured in online tools and environments, rather than on the Web more generally. One example of an altmetrics provider is ImpactStory: ImpactStory ..."