Altmetrics – as an alternative measure of impact for scholarly research – are in the news. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the San Fransisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) are researching and recommending metrics other than traditional journal impact factors for measuring scholarly impact. Ernesto Priego writes in On Metrics and Read More
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Altmetrics for librarians and researchers
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