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Can We Count on Social Media Metrics?
2018
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '18
Measuring research impact is important for ranking publications in academic search engines and for research evaluation. Social media metrics or altmetrics measure the impact of scientific work based on social media activity. Altmetrics are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics, e.g. allowing the assessment of new publications for which citations are not yet available. Despite the increasing importance of altmetrics, their characteristics are not well understood: Until now it has
doi:10.1145/3201064.3201101
dblp:conf/websci/MehrazarKLMP18
fatcat:qukt7e5hmvb4ncekj6cf535x2y