Measuring scientific information on the web 2.0: exploring Altmetric's platafform possibilities and limitations
With the evolution of the Internet, new ways of collaboratively creating and sharing knowledge emerged, culminating in the Web 2.0 (Web social). With the evolution of the Internet, emerge new ways of creating and sharing knowledge collaboratively, culminating in the Web 2.0 (Web social). The product...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict) |
| Repository: | Ciência da Informação (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revista.ibict.br:article/5657 |
| Online Access: | https://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/5657 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Informetrics. Social media Social web Altmetric tools Altmetrics Estudios de información métrica. Redes sociales Web Social Herramientas altmétricas Estudos métricos da Informação Mídias Sociais Web social Ferramentas altmétricas Altmetria |
| Summary: | With the evolution of the Internet, new ways of collaboratively creating and sharing knowledge emerged, culminating in the Web 2.0 (Web social). With the evolution of the Internet, emerge new ways of creating and sharing knowledge collaboratively, culminating in the Web 2.0 (Web social). The products resulted from academic and scientific activities also began to circulate in the social media, inspiring the interest of researchers in the measurement and study of actions and interactions related to such activities, arising altmetrics. Since then, technologies, tools and platforms have been created to measure these phenomena, and Altmetric, from Digital Science, is currently the main platform for collecting altmetrics data. This research aims to explore the possibilities, limitations and structural characteristics of Altmetric as a source of data and altmetric indicators. The platform is analyzed in an exploratory and experimental way, based on data from SciELO’s collection and an interview with Altmetric's director of research relations, Stacy Konkiel. As a result, several possibilities, limitations and characteristics related to the conceptual foundations and the production of the platform indicators were presented and discussed, as well as the types of sources / data tracked; coverage range; calculation of the Altmetric score; popularity and media coverage; possibilities of studying correlations between citations and mentions. |
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