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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.

Twenty - five years after the first «scientists» warning to humanity», a new report is continuing to gain momentum and is already the one of the most talked about papers globally since Altmetric records began.

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.

Those most convinced about the importance of this alternative, online scientific influence — sometimes called the altmetric impact — have even put together web tools that monitor and measure the buzz a new study generates online.

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.

Altmetric Attention Scores are a weighted count of the volume of attention a research article has received, intended to reflect the likely visibility and reach of the publication amongst audiences both within and beyond academia.

Institutional leaders who are serious about understanding how research affects the world should be aware of publications with high Altmetric Attention Scores, regardless of whether they come from discoveries made internally or by competing groups.»

It is possible that they may eventually use altmetric data to inform their allocation of grant money.

And some of the reporting that boosted the Altmetric score had nothing to do with the study.

«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.

This year's buzziest studies were mentioned a total of 112,492 times in Altmetric's online sources.

One of the most prominent scoring systems is run by an outfit called Altmetric, now a division of the London - based publishing technology startup Digital Science.

were mentioned a total of 112,492 times in Altmetric's online sources.

Altmetrics are now also available to Affilliates showing a visual breakdown of an article's digital impact and reach.

Welcome to Altmetric's «High Five» for October, a discussion of the top five scientific papers with the highest Altmetric scores this month.

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.

Using Altmetric, we've compiled a list of the 25 most talked - about climate papers of 2016.

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.