How can we investigate citation behavior?: a study of reasons for citing literature in communication
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Bibliographic and Web citations: what is the difference?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web citation data for impact assessment: A comparison of four science disciplines: Book Reviews
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Google Scholar citations and Google Web-URL citations: A multi-discipline exploratory analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Google book search: Citation analysis for social science and the humanities
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
How and why scholars cite on Twitter
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
A combined bibliometric indicator to predict article impact
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Pragmatic evaluation of folksonomies
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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The rise of the social web and its uptake by scholars has led to the creation of altmetrics, which are social web metrics for academic publications. These new metrics can, in theory, be used in an evaluative role, to give early estimates of the impact of publications or to give estimates of non-traditional types of impact. They can also be used as an information seeking aid: to help draw a digital library user's attention to papers that have attracted social web mentions. If altmetrics are to be trusted then they must be evaluated to see if the claims made about them are reasonable. Drawing upon previous citation analysis debates and web citation analysis research, this article discusses altmetric evaluation strategies, including correlation tests, content analyses, interviews and pragmatic analyses. It recommends that a range of methods are needed for altmetric evaluations, that the methods should focus on identifying the relative strengths of influences on altmetric creation, and that such evaluations should be prioritised in a logical order.