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)
Title
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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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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