Chapter 2. Major Altmetrics Tools

Robin Chin Roemer, Rachel Borchardt

Abstract


Chapter 2 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 51, no. 5), “Altmetrics”

Chapter 2 introduces the wide variety of online tools involved in the gathering and packaging of altmetrics data. These tools include general social media sites, scholarly peer networks that help researchers connect with each other and discover scholarly information, and harvester products that collect and aggregate information from other portions of the Social Web, both scholarly and nonscholarly. The chapter concludes with a look at different ways to critically evaluate these tools and other tools that may appear in the future altmetrics landscape.

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