Altmetrics of "altmetrics" using Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Google plus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki
We measure the impact of "altmetrics" field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Google plus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 2010 2014. To capture the social impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt index, analogues to h index. Across the deployed indices, our results have shown high correlation among the indicators that capture social impact. While we observe medium Pearson's correlation \r{ho} .247) among the alt index and h index, a relatively high correlation is observed between social citations and scholarly citations \r{ho} .646) Interestingly, we find high turnover of social citations in the field compared with the traditional scholarly citations, i.e. social citations are 42.2 more than traditional citations. The social mediums such as Twitter and Mendeley appear to be the most effective channels of social impact followed by Facebook and Google plus. Overall, altmetrics appears to be working well in the field of "altmetrics"
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