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Altmetrics for Librarians and Institutions: Part I Altmetrics landscape, impact and value

Part I: Altmetrics landscape, impact and value. In this series of three posts we look at the world of emerging metrics as indicators of impact and what value they may hold for academic institutions and librarians.

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Topics

  • Education

Categories

  • alfred p. sloan foundation grant
  • total-impact
  • journal impact factor
  • social bookmarking
  • mendeley
  • altmetrics

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Sheila Seow

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