This document discusses altmetrics, which are alternative metrics to traditional citations for measuring scholarly impact. It describes how altmetrics tools can track mentions and interactions with scholarly work across various online platforms. As an example, it provides altmetrics data for a specific article, showing metrics from PLoS, ImpactStory, and an institutional repository. It also lists several information sources for learning more about altmetrics, including relevant blogs and groups.

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Daniel Beucke | beucke@sub.uni-goettingen.de
Ulrich Herb | u.herb@sulb.uni-saarland.de

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Scholarly Impact
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http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

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Altmetrics in the wild
Article: The Nature and Perception of Fluctuations in Human Musical Rhythms
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026457
PLoS
ImpactStory
Institutional Repository: GoeScholar

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Further information
• altmetrics: a manifesto
• Mendeley: altmetrics group
• Twitter: search for #altmetrics
• ImpactStory blog
• Altmetric blog
• Gobbledygook: blog from Martin Fenner (technical lead for the PLoS Article
Level Metrics project)
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