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Research Impact Challenge

Day 3: Gather Altmetrics of your work

Welcome to day 3 of the Research Impact Challenge. Today we are going to focus on Altmetrics.Example using Altmetric It bookmarklet

Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics proposed as an alternative to citation impact metrics. They provide information about the attention and influence of research of an article or publication and are based on interactions and conversations about scholarly content that occur online, mainly on social media platforms.

One of the benefits of altmetrics is that they can accrue sooner than traditional metrics (citations) as they do not depend on the long process of conventional scholarly communication. Examples of altmetrics include mentions on Twitter, news releases, blogs, citations in policy documents, number of downloads, and more.

As altmetrics are becoming more popular than ever in evaluating research, you can include them in your CV, grant proposal, personal website, and your promotion and tenure dossier. 

 

 

Challenge:
  • Install the free Altmetric.com bookmarklet browser plug-in.
  • Search one article (could be one authored by you) in Pubmed database or directly through the publisher's website.
  • Use the  Bookmarklet's "Altmetric It!" button to display the altmetrics data for that paper that will appear on the right side of the page.
  • Compile article-level metrics (number of tweets, mentions in the news, Mendeley readership, etc.) of one of your papers.

 

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