Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Altmetrics could enable scholarship from developing countries to receive due recognition.

Altmetrics could enable scholarship from developing countries to receive due recognition.

"....The scholarly community is abuzz with altmetrics and the related (but different) term Article Level Metrics......   altmetrics may not remain alternative for long. Whether they supplant or complement the JIF, they bring with them a promise, but no guarantees, for developing regions....."

Academic librarians are encourage to engage with this concept in the interests of promoting the scholarly research of their institutions

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