Altmetrics A 21st-century Solution to Determining Research Quality

摘要

The past decade saw an exponential rise in the number of academic articles published annually. At the same time, librarians and academics began to question traditional measures of research quality, such as the journal impact factor and citation counts, for being unreliable and slow to accumulate. Although in the past these measures have helped librarians filter for quality content, serving as an indication of the value of journal titles, they show weakness when applied to the rapidly evolving scholarly publication marketplace now in place. Neither can be applied easily to non-traditional scholarly outputs such as working papers, technical reports, datasets, and conference presentations.