addition, the diverse development of social network has substantially changed the methods of scholarly communication. Therefore, in the current digital age, the use of the traditional citation-based academic evaluation can no longer reflect the true academic influences. Consequently, conventional and innovative metrics have been combined to create new academic evaluation indicators, recently. In response to the development of open access, digital publishing, and big data, novel indicators for scholarly communication in the Web 2.0 called
“Altmetrics” is emerged. In this study, we explore the origin and development of Altmetrics, focusing on the characteristics, indicator types, data sources, and analytical tools. Furthermore, we describe the current challenges in Altmetrics and examined the effects of Altmetrics on library and information science research and library management. This study may provide researchers insight into the research domain of Altmetrics to facilitate the development of related studies in the future.
Keywords: Altmetrics; Webometrics; Scholarly communication; Academic
evaluation; Social network
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