Original paper
Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research
Abstract
We propose a new metric called ‘alt-index’, which is analagous to the h-index, but uses altmetrics data to measure both the volume and social media activity of scientific literature. The dataset includes over 1.1 million papers and their associated altmetrics score. A correlation analysis of the h-index and alt-index is conducted at three different levels: field level, source (journal) level, and author level. Our results show a strong positive...
Paper Details
Title
Introducing the ‘alt-index’ for measuring the social visibility of scientific research
Published Date
May 7, 2020
Journal
Volume
123
Issue
3
Pages
1407 - 1419
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