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Peer-Reviewed Articles

Coverage and adoption of altmetrics sources in the bibliometric community

2014 Isabella Peters / Stefanie Haustein Bibliometrics

This content is not available in the selected language. Altmetrics, indices based on social media platforms and tools, have recently emerged as alternative means of measuring scholarly impact. Such indices assume that scholars in fact populate online social environments, and interact with scholarly products in the social web. We tested this assumption by examining the […] Read more

Book Chapter

The Use of Bibliometrics for Assessing Research: Possibilities, Limitations and Adverse Effects

2014 Stefanie Haustein / Vincent Larivière Bibliometrics / Research Evaluation

This content is not available in the selected language. Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in the light of limited resources and increased bureaucratization of science, peer review is getting more and […] Read more