“Altmetric Mentions and the Communication of Medical Research”, New Report From Digital Science
The following report was recently made available by Digital Science and funded by Nesta, a registered charity in the UK that promotes innovation.
Digital Science is a business division of Macmillan Science Education. Altmetric and FigShare are two DS products.
Title
Altmetric Mentions and the Communication of Medical Research
Authors
Jonathan Adams
Digital Science
Tamar Loach
Digital Science
Summary
The report looks at whether data emerging from media ‘mentions’ of research provide timely indicators of outcomes linked to social and technical innovation for stakeholders in networks beyond academia.
Direct to Full Text Report (17 pages; (PDF)
Filed under: Data Files, News
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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