altmetrics
Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2012 the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.
altmetrics.org/
Our vision is summarized in:J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Alt-metrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26 October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto.You can follow the ongoing discussion on Twitter via the #altmetrics tag or via the respective groups on Mendeley or FriendFeed. [See also: Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online, Chronicle of Higher Education.
Resources
altmetrics on Mendeley
altmetrics on FriendFeed
altmetrics on LinkedIn
Total-Impact
ReaderMeter
Altmetric.com
Altmetrics crawler
CitedIn
ScienceCard
PeerEvaluation.org
Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton: “Evaluating online evidence of research impact” [Keynote speech ataltmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web, Koblenz (Germany), 14-15 June 2011 An ACM Web Science Conference 2011 Workshop]
Thanks to my colleague, Ingrid Thomson, for bringing this to my attention.