Altmetrics

How it is used

Attention can be positive or critical and is not a quality verdict.

Example sentences

1. The article's altmetrics rose after a public debate questioned its conclusions.

   Critical attention can raise an attention indicator.

2. We reported altmetrics alongside citations to describe different forms of reach.

   Online attention and scholarly citation measure different activity.

Common collocations

• report altmetrics
• altmetrics indicators

Related terms

• citationA reference to a source in a piece of writing; also each time another publication refers to a work, counted as a measure of its influence.
• impact factorA yearly measure of how often articles in a journal are cited on average, based on citations in one year to items published in the two previous years.

More terms: Peer Review and Publishing

• peer review
• journal
• manuscript
• submit
• reviewer
• revise and resubmit
• desk rejection
• open access
• corresponding author
• publish or perish
• editor
• co-author