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Altmetrics for information professionals : past, present and future /
The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure, citations are used as a proxy. Citations are an important part of scholarly communication and a significant component of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Chandos Publishing,
2015.
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| Colección: | Chandos information professional series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Altmetrics for Information Professionals: Past, Present and Future; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; Altmetrics; The steps towards altmetrics; What's in a name?; Levels of impact; The questions unanswered; Outline of this book; 1 The Past; 1 Introduction; 2 Scholarly Communication; 3 Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics; 3.1 Bibliometric laws; 3.2 Co-word analysis; 3.3 Bibliometric analysis; 3.3.1 Citation databases; 3.3.2 Evaluative citation analysis; 3.3.3 Relational citation analysis; 3.4 Citing behavior.
- 3.5 Citation-based research evaluation3.6 The interest in societal impact of research; 4 Webometrics; 4.1 The hyperlink; 4.2 Webometric research; 4.2.1 Webometric research in general; 4.2.2 Scientometric research with webometric methods; 5 Social Media; 5.1 Big data; 5.2 Analyzing social media; 5.3 Key performance indicators; 6 Conclusions; 2 The Present; 7 Introduction; 8 Scholarly Communication and Other Scholarly Activities in Social Media; 8.1 New research ideas; 8.2 Data collection; 8.3 Analyzing the data; 8.4 Disseminating research products.
- 8.5 How do researchers use the web for scholarly communication?9 The Potential and Critique of Altmetrics; 9.1 The potential of altmetrics; 9.2 The critique; 10 The Altmetrics; 10.1 Impact; 10.2 Data sources of altmetrics; 10.2.1 Blogs; 10.2.2 Microblogs; 10.2.3 Social networking sites; 10.2.4 Social reference managers; 10.2 5 Social peer reviewing; 10.2.6 Recommendation systems; 10.2.7 Wikipedia; 10.2.8 Data repositories; 10.3 Service providers; 10.3.1 The Public Library of Science-PLoS; 10.3.2 Altmetric LLP; 10.3.3 PlumAnalytics; 10.3.4 Impactstory; 11 Stakeholders.
- 11.1 Researchers11.2 Universities; 11.3 Libraries; 11.4 Publishers; 11.5 Funders; 11.6 The general public; 12 Conclusions; 3 The Future; 13 Introduction; 14 Meaning and Validity of Altmetrics; 14.1 Creating altmetrics; 14.2 Detecting altmetrics; 14.3 Measuring reach; 14.4 Measuring impact; 15 Pushing the Envelope; 16 Concerns for the Future; 16.1 Lack of standards; 16.2 Gaming altmetrics; 17 Future Research; 18 Conclusions; References; Index.