This paper presents a review of altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept is defined as the creation and study of new indicators for analysing scientific and academic research activity based onWeb 2.0. The underlying premise is that variables such as mentions in blogs, numberof tweets or saves ofan articleby researchersin reference management systems, may be a valid measure of the use and impactof scientific publications. In this respect,these measuresare becoming particularly relevant, being at the centre of debate within the bibliometric community. Firstly,an explanation is given of the main platforms and indicators for this type of measurement. Subsequently,a study is undertaken of a selection of papers from the field of communication, comparing the number of citations received withtheir 2.0 indicators.The results show that the most cited articles within recent years also have significantly higher altmetric indicators. Next follows a review of the principal empirical studies undertaken, centering on the correlations between bibliometric and alternative indicators. To conclude, the main limitations of altmetrics are highlighted,alongside a reflective consideration of the role altmetrics may play in capturing the impactof research in Web 2.0 platforms.
Using RhNav - Rhizome Navigation I wrote a data aggregator for Technorati's API. The first result is a video which visualizes blog domains by analysing Technorati's Cosmos (the blogs which link to a particular URL). The video is a screencast of RhNav fetc
Browsing and filtering in social web feeds; summarization, recommendation and personalization of messages; An extension could be a semantic enabled filtering
Bebo is the next generation social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.
J. Freyne, S. Anand, I. Guy, and A. Hotho. Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems, page 383--384. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2011)
B. Yu, and M. Singh. Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace, volume 1860 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, (2000)
M. Morris. Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 1657--1660. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)