Guides: Research Impact: Promoting and Measuring: Alternative Metrics

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Research impact: Altmetrics make their mark.
Kwok R. Research impact: Altmetrics make their mark. Nature. 2013 Aug 22;500(7463):491-3. doi: 10.1038/nj7463-491a. PMID: 23977678.
Tracking the Scholarly Conversation in Health Professions Education: An Introduction to Altmetrics
Meyer HS, Artino AR Jr, Maggio LA. Tracking the Scholarly Conversation in Health Professions Education: An Introduction to Altmetrics. Acad Med. 2017 Oct;92(10):1501. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001872. PMID: 28795974.

What are Altmetrics or Alternative Metrics?

"Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments."

Priem J, Groth P, Taraborelli D. The altmetrics collection. PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e48753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048753. Epub 2012 Nov 1. PMID: 23133655; PMCID: PMC3486795.

AKA social influmetrics (Rousseau and Ye 2013); social media metrics (Haustein, Costas, and Lariviere 2015)

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Altmetric Explorer monitors, searches, and measures tweets, news stories, blog posts, patents, grants and other sites that mention scholarly research done at GUMC and elsewhere. Altmetric Explorer data can be used in addition to traditional research metrics to present a well-rounded picture of individual or community research impact.
Large Collection
2013-Present
Updated as needed

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Provided by the company that includes Altmetric Explorer, this is a freely available database of publications (and more) that can also display basic level metrics and altmetrics for researchers and their publications.

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Research Impact: Promoting and Measuring

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What are Altmetrics or Alternative Metrics?

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