retrieved from Dimensions database, Altmetrics scores (both aggregated and individual) and Mendeley readership counts.  …

sources of altmetrics. Secondly, the study investigates the relationship between altmetrics and citations. Finally, the study … also investigates whether the relationship between citations and altmetrics was stronger or weaker for those articles that … had been mentioned at least once in the sources of altmetrics. Design/methodology/approach The journal articles in Physics …

articles. Research limitations/implications This study’s limitation is that the studied articles’ altmetrics performance was … examined using only one of the altmetrics data service providers (altmetrics database). Hence, future research should explore … altmetrics on the topic using more than one platform. Another limitation of the current research is that it did not explore the …

altmetrics. Findings – As shown by the discussion of the ten principles against the background of the knowledge about and the … research into altmetrics, the principles also have a great importance for altmetrics and should be taken into account in their … application. Originality/value – Altmetrics is already frequently used in the area of research evaluation. Thus, it is important …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and critique of altmetrics, an understudied yet … is organized into six parts: the first defines altmetrics; the second examines how altmetrics work; the third presents … multiple typologies under which altmetrics can be classified and studied; the fourth details the technological capabilities of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of altmetrics in different disciplines of … social science: first, by investigating the current richness and future potential of altmetrics in the selected social … science disciplines and then by evaluating the validity of altmetrics as indicators of research impact in each discipline …