Recommended Readings – What Are Altmetrics?

Books & book chapters

Beyond bibliometrics: harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact by Blaise Cronin & Cassidy Sugimoto (eds.) Find in a library >>> Amazon >>>
Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact by Robin Chin Roemer & Rachel Borchardt Find in a library >>> Amazon >>>
Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics by Andy Tattersall (ed.) Find in a library >>> Amazon >>>
Priem, J. (2014) ‘Altmetrics’ (Open access chapter from Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact) http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01328
Altmetrics for Librarians: 100+ tips, tricks, and examples by Stacy Konkiel, Natalia Madjarevic & Amy Rees Download >>>

Priem, J., Taraborelli,, D., Groth, P. and Neylon, C. (2010) Altmetrics: a manifesto. altmetrics.org/manifesto
Haustein, S. (2016). Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies. Scientometrics, 108(1). http://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-1910-9 (preprint)
Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L., de Rijcke, S., and Rafols, I. (2015) ‘Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics.’ Nature. 520, 429-431. www.nature.com/news/bibliometrics-the-leiden-manifesto-for-research-metrics-1.17351
Costas, R., Zahedi, Z. and Wouters, P. (2014) ‘Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective.’ JASIST 66(10). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23309 (preprint)
Thelwall, M., Haustein, S., Larivière, V. and Sugimoto, C. (2013). ‘Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other candidates.’ PLOS ONE, 8(5), e64841. journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064841
Thelwall, M. (2016). Interpreting correlations between citation counts and other indicators. Scientometrics, 108(1), 337-347. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-1973-7 (preprint)