Altmetrics and the humanities
Canty, Nick (2018) Altmetrics and the humanities. UCL Press, London, UK.
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This article seeks to explain altmetrics (alternative metrics) to the Arts & Humanities communities. Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics that cover not just conventional citation counts but others methods such as downloads, social media shares and other measures of research impact such as inclusion of academic work in policy documents (Wilsdon et al 2015 : 5). Although the application of altmetrics started in the Sciences and had an initial focus on the journal article, recent technological developments among the providers of altmetric indicators and a widening of the scope of altmetrics to include books and book chapters makes this a subject with which researchers across A&H disciplines now need to engage.
The presence of the multi-coloured donut ring seen alongside academic articles in university repositories and on journal articles is becoming ubiquitous (ugh) and the article explains what these symbols mean and how they are provided.
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