Tag: Social media

  • Alt-metrics – an additional way to measure scientific impact

    Alt-metrics – an additional way to measure scientific impact

    The speed of alt-metrics presents the opportunity to create real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering systems: instead of subscribing to dozens of tables-of-contents, a researcher could get a feed of this week’s most significant work in her field. This becomes especially powerful when combined with quick “alt-publications” like blogs or preprint servers, shrinking the communication cycle…