Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
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Summary
Comparisons between citations and metric values for articles published at different times, even within the same year, can remove or reverse this association and so publishers and scientometricians should consider the effect of time when using altmetrics to rank articles.
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- article
- Published
- 2013-05-28
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- 954
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- Open access
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Keywords
Altmetrics, Citation, Social media, Metric (unit), Bibliometrics
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