Main Reading

Stewart, J., Procter, R., Williams, R., & Poschen, M. (2012). The role of academic publishers in shaping the development of Web 2.0 services for scholarly communication. New Media & Society, 0–20. doi:10.1177/1461444812465141

Other Reading

Fenner, M. (2013). What can article-level metrics do for you? PLoS Biology, 11(10), e1001687. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001687

Thelwall, M., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2013). Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services. PloS One, 8(5), e64841. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064841

Priem, J., & Hemminger, B. H. (2010, July 2). Scientometrics 2.0: New metrics of scholarly impact on the social Web. First Monday. Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570

Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., Hagberg, A., & Chute, R. (2009). A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures. PloS One, 4(6), e6022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006022

See an initiative by UK now spread to US and Australian universities: Snowball Metrics, which attempts to develop alt metrics for Universities "It is owned by research-intensive universities around the globe to ensure that its outputs are of practical use to them, and are not imposed by organizations with potentially distinct aims such as funders, agencies, or suppliers of research information"

www.snowballmetrics.com/   There are some explanatory videos too.

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