5. ―Altmetrics are fast, using public APIs to
gather data in days or weeks. They‘re
open – not just the data, but the scripts
and algorithms that collect and interpret
it. Altmetrics look beyond counting and
emphasize semantic content like
usernames, timestamps, and tags‖
altmetrics, a manifesto
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
6. downloads, shares, tweets, likes,
views, bookmarks, scopus
citations, comments, reviews,
wikipedia articles, blog posts,
news stories, saves, +1s, google
scholar citations, favourites, clicks,
stars, mentions …
7. … of journal articles, book
chapters, data-sets, videos, blog
posts, slide decks, software,
conference papers, websites …
11. real-time indicators of impact
captures ‗practitioner‘ impact of those who
may never publish
evidence of public engagement
a leading indicator for future citations?
measuring impact
12. discover trending topics and papers
identify potential collaborators
track the impact and reach of your article
across different channels
research tools
22. ―In the next five years, I believe that it will
become routine to track — and to value —
citations to an online lab notebook,
contributions to a software library, bookmarks to
data sets from content-sharing sites such as
Pinterest and Delicious. In other words, to value
a wider range of metrics that suggest a
research product has made a difference‖
heather piwowar
Nature 493, 159 (10 January 2013) doi:10.1038/493159a
