Do altmetrics follow the crowd or does the crowd follow altmetrics?

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 375-378

  Alhoori, Hamed ^a   Furuta, Richard ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; CiteULike; F1000; Facebook; Journal Impact Factor; Journal Ranking; Mendeley; Online Reference Managers; Research Evaluation; Research Impact; Social Media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALTMETRICS; CITEULIKE; F1000; FACEBOOK; IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNAL RANKINGS; MENDELEY; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH IMPACTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84919384538     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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