About the session
14.30pm, Monday 30th March 2015
Todd Carpenter
NISO (National Information Standards Organization)
Long before the term altmetrics was coined in 2010, people had recognised the problems associated with citation measurement and had been exploring new strategies for expanding the toolset to assess scholarly impact. Over the past five years these strategies have grown to include not just downloads but other forms of digital interaction, including social media reference, reference tracking, personal library saving, and secondary linking activity. This plenary talk will explore the adoption of these new approaches to assessment, their application in other information services, and what can be done to shift altmetrics away from ‘alternative’ and ever more into mainstream.
