Altmetrics: metrics or index?


An interview with Catherine Williams

by Cristina Rigutto

"Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analysing, and informing scholarship." Jason Priem, 2010


"Altmetrics are an indicator of engagement and a real-time record of the online attention surrounding an individual research output." Catherine Williams, 2016

Is altmetrics a suite of metrics for

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