Open AccessAltmetrics – A Collated Adjunct Beyond Citations for Scholarly Impact: A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Basavaraj Patthi,
M. V. R. Prasad,
Ritu Gupta,
Ashish Singla,
Jitendra Kumar,
Kuldeep Dhama,
Irfan Ali,
Lav Kumar Niraj
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/26153.10078
Subject(s) - altmetrics , citation , clarity , scholarly communication , social media , data science , computer science , political science , world wide web , law , biochemistry , chemistry , publishing
In emerging Figures, scholars are unifying social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, open nature of these tools reveals the scholarly action to be clear and unambiguous. Metrics which is set on these activities could enlighten broader, faster measures of impact, supplementing traditional citation metrics.