Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics on scholarly impact on the social web
by: Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger
Source: First Monday, Volume 15, Number 7 – 5 July 2010
Source: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
Abstract
The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of …

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