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Altmetrics. New measures for the visibility of research results

According to altmetrics.org, "altmetrics" refers to the creation and study of new metrics based on the social web to analyze and document science [see box Altmetrics: a manifesto]. According to a NISO white paper , this is the term most commonly used to describe alternative evaluation metrics linked to the rise of social networks. The field is very recent and highly evolving: in 2015, over 200 journal articles, symposia and book chapters were published on the subject. The term was proposed in 2010 as a generalization of metrics...