All Questions
Tagged with social-media bibliometrics
4 questions
22
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Are there boycotts of university rankings?
Motivation: Our university has asked us to provide contacts for possible referees for our university for the QS ranking; apparently this "find your own reviewers" system has a 40% weight in ...
- 47.4k
4
votes
1
answer
645
views
Do academics make decisions like other humans?
There are now 100s of studies from behaviour change sciences that show that humans take mental shortcuts to make decisions.
For instance we eat at a busy restaurant, because, as a rule of thumb, they ...
- 41
3
votes
3
answers
3k
views
How can I find the altmetrics for a specific paper?
Alternative metrics for a paper, include not just the citations in other academic journals, but also all Twitter mentions, citations in Wikipedia, citations across the Stack Exchange network, etc.
The ...
- 4,768
1
vote
3
answers
512
views
How easy is it to game the altmetric score?
The altmetric score is a summary of the online attention a publication has received. More tweets, hits and chatter makes a bigger score. But what does the popularity contest mean?
I've heard of ...
- 23