were mentioned a total of 112,492 times
in Altmetric's online sources.
This year's buzziest studies were mentioned a total of 112,492 times
in Altmetric's online sources.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors,
in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (
altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.
ÜberResearch and
Altmetric, leading data and analytics companies serving scientific funders and research organizations, have published an analysis of Parkinson's disease research papers with the highest
Altmetric Attention Scores
in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease.
Using the same methodology we employed for Parkinson's, our plan is to study other neurological disorders to determine whether there are disease - specific factors which explain any observed differences
in the type of biomedical research most likely to receive a high
Altmetric Attention Score.»
«An
in - depth analysis of a piece of shit: distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm eggs
in human stool» generated huge
altmetrics scores when it was published
in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases earlier this year.
First author on the paper, Dr. Rui Araújo, a neurology resident
in the Department of Neurology
in the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (PT), elaborated, «There seems to be a correlation between
altmetrics and conventional metrics, but notable exceptions occur.
Altmetric skeptics argue that a big impact online is often a matter of shrewd marketing rather than quality science, says Mike Thelwall at the University of Wolverhampton
in the UK.
In other words: altmetrics may measure scientific quality in the same way traditional citation scores d
In other words:
altmetrics may measure scientific quality
in the same way traditional citation scores d
in the same way traditional citation scores do.
«It was completely overwhelming, despite having prepared for weeks for it,» says Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville who led a massive replication of psychological science published
in Science
in August — No. 5 on
Altmetric's list.
Rather than scoring journals by their impact within the scientific community,
Altmetric scores individual articles based on buzz: stories
in the media and references on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and even Wikipedia.
To account for age we can compare this
Altmetric Attention Score to the 180,340 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one
in any source.
Alternative metrics, or
altmetrics, are being rapidly applied
in a variety of contexts for the STEM community.
To account for age we can compare this
Altmetric Attention Score to the 91,170 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one
in any source.
Altmetric scores academic papers based on how many times they're mentioned
in online news articles and on social media platforms.
In the meantime, article - level metrics, increasingly incorporating
altmetrics, are being advocated as a replacement for the inappropriate use of the JIF.
To account for age we can compare this
Altmetric Attention Score to the 227,426 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one
in any source.