Document Type
Article
Date
2013
Keywords
altmetrics, bibliometrics, citation metrics, social media, scholarly communication
Language
English
Disciplines
Library and Information Science | Scholarly Communication
Description/Abstract
Quantifying scholarly output via citation metrics is the time-honored method to gauge academic success. Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provide researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across evolving modes of scholarly communication. This article will give librarians an overview of new trends in measuring scholarly influence, introduce them to altmetrics tools, and encourage them to engage with researchers in discussion of these new metrics.
Recommended Citation
Galloway, Linda M.; Pease, Janet; and Rauh, Anne E., "Introduction to Altmetrics for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians" (2013). Libraries' and Librarians' Publications. 178.
https://surface.syr.edu/sul/178
Source
submission
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Additional Information
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Science & Technology Libraries 32:4, 335-345, DOI: 10.1080/0194262X.2013.829762