Altmetrics is a very interesting way of looking at how scholarship has a real world impact outside of the ivory tower. What it doesn’t do is comment on the quality or integrity of the research. Just because something gets shared a lot on social media doesn’t mean it’s true. Andrew Wakefield and his anti-vaccine study … Continue reading 23 Things: Thing 19 – Altmetics →

Altmetrics is a way to measure and display the reach of journal articles. Although it claims to measure their impact, it is really just recording their popularity, as there is no easy way to drill down to see the resulting real world change that may have occured. I looked at a research article from the … Continue reading Altmetrics →

I admit this is something which I had not looked into much before now but after some background reading I feel it could be a really useful tool for academics and students. Personally, I don’t think I will be using it in my own work but is something which may be of interest to the academics I … Continue reading Thing 19 -Altmetrics

I’ve been looking forward to this particular Thing for a while given that it is of relatively direct relevance to my area of work – measuring the impact of research output like journal articles and books. My work is involved with making resources like this available to the University of Edinburgh community. This look at … Continue reading →