Altmetrics: Its Trend and Application in Knowledge Information Centres

View Sample PDF

Author(s): Payel Biswas (Institute of Urban Transport, India)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Science
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anna Kaushik (University of Kota, India), Ashok Kumar (Maharishi Markandeshwar University (Deemed), India)and Payel Biswas (Institute of Urban Transport, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9825-1.ch009

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Information Systems / Library Science

Purchase

View Altmetrics: Its Trend and Application in Knowledge Information Centres on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

According to information scientists, information is modified into knowledge by adding experience. Researchers need powerful and successful filters to help them stay abreast of literature in their field, as well as methods to track the impact of their own research in often very specialized areas of interest. Traditional mechanisms such as peer review and citation searching using bibliometrics are no longer sufficient tools to aid researchers. How can librarians become leaders and powerful allies in this new landscape? Enter the world of Altmetrics. Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provides researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across a wide range of media and platforms. Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. Altmetrics is a field of web-based metrics that accounts for total author influence which also looks beyond journal and monographic citation counts to the social web. The aim of this chapter is to explain the concept of library and librarian involvement with altmetrics.

The IRMA Community

Research IRM

Altmetrics: Its Trend and Application in Knowledge Information Centres

Purchase

Abstract

Related Content

IRMA Sponsors