Data citations, or citations in reference lists to data, are increasingly seen as an important
means to trace data reuse and incentivize data sharing. Although disciplinary differences in …

Purpose To provide an overview of altmetrics, including their potential benefits and
limitations, how they may be obtained, and their role in assessing pharmacoepidemiologic …

The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher
education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand what role researchers assign to online
representations on the new digital communication sites that have emerged, such as …

The Social Sciences have long been struggling with quantitative forms of research
assessment—insufficient coverage in prominent citation indices and overall lower citation …

Research data in all its diversity-instrument readouts, observations, images, texts, video and
audio files, and so on-is the basis for most advancement in the sciences. Yet the assessment …

Purpose This study aims to compare the impacts of proceedings papers in the fields of social
science and humanities (SSH) and science. Design/methodology/approach This study …

A Web 2.0 tem causado impactos na comunicação científica. O uso das mídias sociais tem
sido utilizado de maneira crescente para compartilhar produtos científicos, havendo …

This panel will present views and critical reflections on peer review, bibliometrics and
altmetrics against the background of the latest developments and critique of the scientific …

Las métricas alternativas, o altmétricas, constituyen un grupo de métricas que plantean
nuevas formas de medir la ciencia, diferentes al recuento tradicional de citas ya la medida …