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Letter: “What Do Altmetrics Counts Mean? A Plea for Content Analyses”

Filed by on January 11, 2016

The “Letter to the Editor” (preprint) linked below has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology.

Title

What Do Altmetrics Counts Mean? A Plea for Content Analyses”

Author

Lutz Bornmann
Max Planck Society

Source

via Authors Web Site

Abstract

Since correlation analyses with traditional citations do not really reveal the meaning of altmetrics, I would like to plead for more content analyses of tweets and blogs (for bookmarks in online reference managers, content analyses are not possible).

Direct to Full Text (6 pages; PDF)

Note: The published version of the letter became available today (Jan. 11, 2015) on the journal’s web site. (Early View)

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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