Altmetrics for Information Professionals : Past, Present and Future.

Front Cover -- Altmetrics for Information Professionals: Past, Present and Future -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Altmetrics -- The steps towards altmetrics -- What's in a name? -- Levels of impact -- The questions unanswered -- Outline of this book -- 1 The Past -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scholarly Communication -- 3 Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics -- 3.1 Bibliometric laws -- 3.2 Co-word analysis -- 3.3 Bibliometric analysis -- 3.3.1 Citation databases -- 3.3.2 Evaluative citation analysis -- 3.3.3 Relational citation analysis -- 3.4 Citing behavior -- 3.5 Citation-based research evaluation -- 3.6 The interest in societal impact of research -- 4 Webometrics -- 4.1 The hyperlink -- 4.2 Webometric research -- 4.2.1 Webometric research in general -- 4.2.2 Scientometric research with webometric methods -- 5 Social Media -- 5.1 Big data -- 5.2 Analyzing social media -- 5.3 Key performance indicators -- 6 Conclusions -- 2 The Present -- 7 Introduction -- 8 Scholarly Communication and Other Scholarly Activities in Social Media -- 8.1 New research ideas -- 8.2 Data collection -- 8.3 Analyzing the data -- 8.4 Disseminating research products -- 8.5 How do researchers use the web for scholarly communication? -- 9 The Potential and Critique of Altmetrics -- 9.1 The potential of altmetrics -- 9.2 The critique -- 10 The Altmetrics -- 10.1 Impact -- 10.2 Data sources of altmetrics -- 10.2.1 Blogs -- 10.2.2 Microblogs -- 10.2.3 Social networking sites -- 10.2.4 Social reference managers -- 10.2 5 Social peer reviewing -- 10.2.6 Recommendation systems -- 10.2.7 Wikipedia -- 10.2.8 Data repositories -- 10.3 Service providers -- 10.3.1 The Public Library of Science-PLoS -- 10.3.2 Altmetric LLP -- 10.3.3 PlumAnalytics -- 10.3.4 Impactstory -- 11 Stakeholders.

11.1 Researchers -- 11.2 Universities -- 11.3 Libraries -- 11.4 Publishers -- 11.5 Funders -- 11.6 The general public -- 12 Conclusions -- 3 The Future -- 13 Introduction -- 14 Meaning and Validity of Altmetrics -- 14.1 Creating altmetrics -- 14.2 Detecting altmetrics -- 14.3 Measuring reach -- 14.4 Measuring impact -- 15 Pushing the Envelope -- 16 Concerns for the Future -- 16.1 Lack of standards -- 16.2 Gaming altmetrics -- 17 Future Research -- 18 Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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