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Altmetrics versus traditional bibliometrics: Short-time lag and short-time life?

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Traditional bibliometrics have been criticised for manipulations like retractions and self-citations. Altmetrics based on social media, news, policy documents and patents are increasingly becoming popular, with the Altmetric.com the older… Click to show full abstract

Traditional bibliometrics have been criticised for manipulations like retractions and self-citations. Altmetrics based on social media, news, policy documents and patents are increasingly becoming popular, with the Altmetric.com the older provider using weighted count sources, each one contributing in a different magnitude to the altmetric attention score (AAS) of the output. According to the most recent revision the sources contribution to the AAS are: News (8), Blog (5), Policy document (3), Patent (3), Wikipedia (3), Twitter (1), Peer review(1), F1000 (1), Syllabi (1), Facebook (0.25), Reddit (0.25), Q&A (0.25), Youtube (0.25), Number of Mendeley readers (0), Number of Dimentions and Web of Science (WoS) citations (0).

Keywords: time; bibliometrics short; short time; versus traditional; altmetrics versus; traditional bibliometrics

Journal Title: European Journal of Anaesthesiology
Year Published: 2020

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