#altmetrics — Public Fediverse posts

Gave a short online lecture on altmetrics today. Main point: altmetrics measure attention, not quality. Sometimes they capture real interest - sometimes just noise. Attention ≠ impact.

👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30154.12488

#Altmetrics #ResearchImpact #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #Scientometrics

Diverse roles of twitter in research evaluation: original tweets and retweets capture different types of engagements with scholarly articles

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/31/diverse-roles-of-twitter-in-research-evaluation-original-tweets-and-retweets-capture-different-types-of-engagements-with-scholarly-articles/

#Altmetrics #AshrafMaleki #KimHolmberg #PLOS #ResearchImpact #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #SocialMedia #twitter

Diverse roles of twitter in research evaluation: original tweets and retweets capture different types of engagements with scholarly articles

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/31/diverse-roles-of-twitter-in-research-evaluation-original-tweets-and-retweets-capture-different-types-of-engagements-with-scholarly-articles/

#Altmetrics #AshrafMaleki #KimHolmberg #PLOS #ResearchImpact #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #SocialMedia #twitter

Evaluating Open Access Advantages for Citations and Altmetrics (2011-21): A Dynamic and Evolving Relationship

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/27/evaluating-open-access-advantages-for-citations-and-altmetrics-2011-21-a-dynamic-and-evolving-relationship/

#Altmetrics #metrics #MikeTaylor #OpenAccess #OpenAccessAdvantage #ResearchImpact #ScientificCommunication

📊 4 months in — encouraging #impact

My article on #DigitalInclusion & #UrbanAI has reached:

• 2,002 accesses
• 5 #citations
• 11
@altmetric.com
+ 1 public mention

🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44327-025-00116-9

#ResearchImpact #Altmetrics #AcademicPublishing #Metrics #DigitalInclusion #UrbanAI

Shout out to St Andy of Tattersall who had a cameo on our End of Year webinar slides @[email protected] #HaloEffect #AcademicSky #Altmetrics

One of our five highest scoring papers in the last month! #Altmetrics

The effect of placement and management of intrathecal catheters following accidental dural puncture on the incidence of postdural puncture headache and severity: a retrospective real-world study

#anaesthesia #medicine #obstetrics #pain

https://buff.ly/3zHGaEH

Just finished a draft to a paper that we first conceived with @lariviev and @stefhaustein back in 2015 (!!). It's been hanging over my head for 8 years. The paper is about Second-order citations—an #altmetrics concept first described by Priem and Costello in 2010, but that nobody has ever tried to materialize. Together with Stef and Alice (of the #scholcommlab), we did a small case study as a proof-of-concept. It's small, but has incredible potential. Excited to post it as a preprint soon(ish).

This is the end of #altmetrics as we know it: #Twitter ends free API access.

Countless hours of development work and creativity with data, apps, visualizations, conference walls, and a lot more: Gone.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/

Now, if the Fediverse would be a tiny bit more open to #federatedsearch approaches, this would be a historical opportunity to direct the attention of all these developers, artists etc to Mastodon & Co.

ResearchHub is holding a "reputation hackathon" from February 3-19 to "design a better reputation algorithm for academic research." Sounds interesting, but I'm also not really clear who is involved with ResearchHub -- their about pages don't tell me anything useful. Anyone know anything about these folks?

EDIT: link removed, sounds like crypto-bs

#ResearchHub #Research #Altmetrics #OpenScience