Alternative metrics are based on counts generated by the use of and interaction with digital information, such as number of downloads and pageviews from a publisher, repository, or online reference manager, or mentions in online venues such as Reddit or blogs. Alternative metrics can be used to complement traditional metrics, to measure engagement with broader public, news media or social scholarly forums.
The types of metrics include:
- bookmarks
- citations
- views
- shares
- downloads
- mentions
- "likes" or votes
SOURCES FOR ALTMETRICS
Specific Tools
Article-level metrics and online activity across media, repository, public and scholarly forums. The Altmetric Bookmarklet is a free browser extension tool that enables viewing of Altmetric data for a published research output with a DOI.
Helps scholars explore and share impacts of all their research products. Including journal articles, blog posts, datasets, and software.
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Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is a free software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations from external data sources; it does not include a database of its own.
Data Tools
View metrics are available in Overview and Benchmarking modules.
