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Altmetrics
Alternative metrics, or Altmetrics, are measures of research impact that supplement citations.
- Altmetrics measure the wider and societal impacts of scholarly works by tracking how they are discussed, shared, saved, read, and reused by scholars and the public.
- Altmetrics also expose the contexts that underlie the numbers, so scholars can see not only how often their work is discussed online, but who and what others are saying about it. [excerpted from: Oregon State University Library
Although there are a number of sources of altmetrics, there is no one platform that provides the entire universe of altmetric data. Some open access examples include: Research Gate, Academia.edu, Impactstory & PLOS; social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ & LinkedIn; bibliographic management tools such as Mendeley & Zotero; and services such as Figshare & Slideshare. Commercial, fee-based services such as Altmetric.com, PlumX (Plum Analytics), Digital Measures, InCites & Pure also are available.