And as both scientists and their funders move to ditch impact factor as the main metric for judging the value of published research, media attention has emerged as one of many alternative metrics. (sciencemag.org)
What is the best alternative metric that I can use to be able to find or calculate the actual efficiency of the engine? (mechanics.stackexchange.com)
Research on altmetrics — alternative metrics for measuring scientific impact — has found no link between social media metrics such as number of tweets and traditional impact metrics such as citations, he says. (sciencemag.org)