Altmetrics

The web is now awash with data suitable for new alternative metrics, or ‘altmetrics’. In an age when there is an increased emphasis on…

Often described as tomorrow’s filters for today, altmetrics emerged at the turn of this decade to make sense of scholarly impact in a burgeoning…

Altmetrics surfaced in 2010 from a tide of scholarly dissatisfaction. For many, peer-review was slow, citation counting insufficient, and the Journals Impact Factor dubious.…