Altmetrics and Author Impact
What are altmetrics and how can you use them to measure the impact of your research? Librarians a the University of Minnesota explain.
Article level metrics, including altmetrics are available in Scopus. "The Article Metrics module can be found on Scopus in the Document details page, where a sidebar highlights Scopus citation count (along with percentile benchmarking), Field-weighted citation impact and PlumX Metrics. Clicking on “View all metrics” opens a more detailed Metrics page, displaying all available metrics and the underlying content for further analysis and understanding."1
Altmetrics are also located and managed from other social media sites:
- Academia.edu"Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. "
- ImpactStory"Track buzz on Twitter, blogs, news outlets and more: we're like Google Scholar for your research's online reach." Sign up with your ORCID and immediately start tracking your work.
- ResearchGate"Our mission is to connect researchers and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise. On ResearchGate they find what they need to advance their research."
- PaperbuzzPaperbuzz is a free and open way to track the online buzz around scholarly articles based on Crossref Event Data.