Altmetrics for information professionals : past, present and future / Kim Holmberg.

Waltham, MA : Chandos Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, [2016]

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Annotation 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 research evaluation, with the assumption being that highly cited work has influenced the work of many other researchers and hence it is more valuable. Recently we have seen new online data sources being researched for this purpose and disruptive ideas with the power to change research assessment, and perhaps even science as a whole, have been born. Altmetrics is a research area that investigates the potential of these new data source as indicators of the impact that research has made on the scientific community and beyond, and thus possibly also as indicators of the societal impact of research.

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Print version: Holmberg, Kim. Altmetrics for information professionals : past, present and future. Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Chandos Publishing, c2016 Chandos information professional series.

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