Want to know more about Altmetrics and their use? Here are some helpful resources:
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Careless, J. (2013). Altmetrics 101: A primer. Information Today, 30(2), 1-36.
Eysenbach, G. (2011). Can tweets predict citations? Metrics of social impact based on Twitter and correlation with traditional metrics of scientific impact. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(4), e123. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2012
Galligan, F., & Dyas-Correia, S. (2013). Altmetrics: Rethinking the way we measure. Serials Review, 39, 56-61. doi: 10.1016/j.serrev.2013.01.003
Haustein, S., Peters, I., Bar-Ilan, J., Priem, J., Shema, H., & Terliesner, J. (2013). Coverage and adoption of altmetrics sources in the bibliometric community. Paper presented at the 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informatics Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Howard, J. (January 29, 2012). Scholars seek better ways to track impact online. Chronicle of Higher Education.
Konkiel, S. (2012). Altmetrics: An app review. Paper presented at the OCLC Innovation in Libraries Conference, Columbus, OH.
Konkiel, S. (2013). Altmetrics: A 21st-century solution to determining research quality. Online Searcher, 37(4), 11-15.
Lapinski, S., Piwowar, H., & Priem, J. (2013). Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave. College & Research Libraries News, 74(6), 292-300.
Li, X., Thelwall, M., & Giustini, D. (2012). Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement. Scientometrics, 91(2), 461-471. doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0580-x
Lin, J., & Fenner, M. (2013). Altmetrics in evolution: Defining and redefining the ontology of article-level metrics. Information Standards Quarterly, 25(2), 20-26. doi: 10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.04
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McIntyre, G. (2013). Altmetrics: Capturing and measuring impact in the social media space. Paper presented at the ACS WA Conference, Perth, Western Australia.
National Information Standards Organization. (2014). NISO altmetrics standards project white paper (draft June 6, 2014).
Peterson-Lugo, B. (2014). Tech Talk: Altmetrics. LIRT News, 36(4), 13-21.
Piwowar, H. (2013). Value all research products. Nature, 493, 159. doi: 10.1038/493159a
Piwowar, H., & Priem, J. (2013). The power of Altmetrics on a CV. Bulletin of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 39(4), 10-13.
Priem, J., & Costello, K. L. (2010). How and why scholars cite on Twitter. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2010), 47(1), 1-4. doi: 10.1002/meet.14504701201
Priem, J., Piwowar, H., & Hemminger, B. (2011). Altmetrics in the wild: An exploratory study of impact metrics based on social media.
Priem, J., Taraborelli, D., Groth, P., & Neylon, C. (2010). Altmetrics: A manifesto.
Roemer, R. C., & Borchardt, R. (2012). From bibliometrics to altmetrics. College & Research Libraries News, 73(10), 596-600.
Shema, H., Bar-Ilan, J., & Thelwall, M. (2012). Research blogs and the discussion of scholarly information. PloS one, 7(5), e35869. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035869
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Tananbaum, G. (2013). Article-level metrics: A SPARC primer. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
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