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Altmetrics
Altmetrics: what they are, tools to gather them and how to increase your altmetric scores.
Provides an overview of the Government’s policy rationale, parameters, and key issues regarding university research engagement and impact, including alternative metrics. Refer to see p 15 for information related to altmetrics.
Introduces the concept of altmetrics, including its relation to existing citation-based research metrics and to the larger academic community. Major altmetrics tools are presented and discussed, as well as social media sources that comprise the spectrum of altmetrics, and methods for evaluating new and existing metrics tools.
This initiative looks at the development and implementation of new assessment metrics, which include “usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioural analysis”