Friday, 8 March 2013

altmetrics: a manifesto – altmetrics.org

altmetrics: a manifesto – altmetrics.org

No one can read everything.  We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. We call for more tools and research based on altmetrics.

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