New Journal Article: “What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield”

The following article was recently published online by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA)

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What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield

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Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA)
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/frma.2017.00009

Background

There is a growing interest in using and analysing Altmetrics data for quantifying the impact of research, especially societal impact (Haunschild & Bornmann 2017, Thelwall et al 2016, Bornmann 2014).

This study therefore aimed to explore the usefulness of Altmetric.com data as a means of identifying and categorizing the policy impact of research articles from a single center (the University of Sheffield).

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