Acceptance of altmetrics by LIS scholars: An exploratory study

A survey of iSchool and Library and Information Science American Library Association accredited school heads explored their use and opinions about academic social media platforms. Results show that ResearchGate is the venue of choice, although respondents do not believe maintaining a profile on academic social media platforms influences academic careers. Respondents do see the value of academic social media sites to enhance visibility and reputation. These data are complemented with an analysis of the visibility on academic/professional social media platforms of this group. The altmetric indicators derived from the data were compared to traditional bibliometric indicators.

[1]  Cassandra C. Elrod,et al.  Information Science and Technology , 2019, Washington Information Directory 2019–2020.

[2]  Mike Thelwall,et al.  Why do papers have many Mendeley readers but few Scopus-indexed citations and vice versa? , 2017, J. Libr. Inf. Sci..

[3]  Laurie J. Bonnici,et al.  The Times, They Are A-Changin’: Attitudes Towards Altmetrics in Higher Education , 2016 .

[4]  Carol Tenopir,et al.  Changes in the digital scholarly environment and issues of trust: An exploratory, qualitative analysis , 2016, Inf. Process. Manag..

[5]  Stefanie Haustein,et al.  Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies , 2016, Scientometrics.

[6]  Vincent Larivière,et al.  Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter , 2014, J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol..

[7]  Anil Kumar Dhiman.  Bibliometrics to Altmetrics: Changing Trends in Assessing Research Impact , 2015 .

[8]  Remedios Melero,et al.  Altmetrics – a complement to conventional metrics , 2015, Biochemia medica.

[9]  S. Haustein,et al.  Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns , 2015, PloS one.

[10]  Lutz Bornmann,et al.  Do altmetrics point to the broader impact of research? An overview of benefits and disadvantages of altmetrics , 2014, J. Informetrics.

[11]  Mike Thelwall,et al.  Do blog citations correlate with a higher number of future citations? Research blogs as a potential source for alternative metrics , 2014, J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol..

[12]  Rodrigo Costas,et al.  How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications , 2014, Scientometrics.

[13]  Judit Bar-Ilan,et al.  Coverage and adoption of altmetrics sources in the bibliometric community , 2014, Scientometrics.

[14]  Man Kit Cheung,et al.  Altmetrics: Too soon for use in assessment , 2013, Nature.

[15]  Heather A. Piwowar,et al.  Altmetrics: Value all research products , 2013, Nature.

[16]  Ronald Rousseau,et al.  A Multi-metric Approach for Research Evaluations , 2022 .

[17]  Judit Bar-Ilan,et al.  Beyond citations: Scholars' visibility on the social Web , 2012, ArXiv.

[18]  Bradley M. Hemminger,et al.  Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact , 2012, ArXiv.

[19]  Mike Thelwall,et al.  Validating online reference managers for scholarly impact measurement , 2011, Scientometrics.

[20]  Jumei Zhang.  The Librarianship and Information Science , 2010 .

[21]  Bradley M. Hemminger,et al.  Scientometrics 2.0: New metrics of scholarly impact on the social Web , 2010, First Monday.

[22]  Judit Bar-Ilan,et al.  Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar , 2008, Scientometrics.