Altmetrics: online attention surrounding your research output.
Altmetrics (alternative metrics) are an alternative for or complement to traditional citation impact metrics. Altmetrics especially capture online attention - how has research been shared, discussed and reused online -, for example on Twitter, in scholarly blogs or policy documents, in newspapers.
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Suppliers of altmetrics
Several companies collect altmetrics, with their own definitions and sources.
Technical and practical side of altmetrics.
Activity - collecting altmetrics in Altmetric Explorer.
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Collecting altmetrics in Altmetric Explorer