Open AccessAltmetrics: Present and future – panel
Author(s) -
BarIlan Judit,
Sugimoto Cassidy,
Gunn Willian,
Haustein Stefanie,
Konkiel Stacy,
Larivière Vincent,
Lin Jennifer
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14505001013
Subject(s) - altmetrics , social media , scientometrics , value (mathematics) , data science , computer science , variety (cybernetics) , world wide web , artificial intelligence , machine learning
Scholars are increasingly incorporating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communication. Altmetrics tracks usage of these and similar tools to measure scholarly influence on the social Web. Altmetrics researchers and practitioners have amassed a growing body of literature and working tools to gather and analyze altmetrics and there is growing interest in this emerging subfield of scientometrics. In this panel, sponsored by SIG/MET, we will present results demonstrating the utility of alternative metrics from a variety of stakeholders: researchers, librarians, publishers and those participating in academic social media sites. We will discuss and debate the value and validity of such metrics with strong degrees of participation from the audience encouraged. Metrics, for better or worse, have had a presence in the lives of scholars–we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of altmetrics for the future.