To what extent does the Leiden manifesto also apply to altmetrics? A discussion of the manifesto against the background of research into altmetrics is a research paper published in Online Information Review (2016). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.3. It has been cited 19 times, with 14 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
Purpose– Hickset al.(2015) have formulated the so-called Leiden manifesto, in which they have assembled the ten principles for a meaningful evaluation of research on the basis of bibliometric data. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approach– In this work the attempt is made to indicate the relevance of the Leiden manifesto for altmetrics.Findings– As shown by the discussion of the ten principles against the background of the knowledge about and the research into altmetrics, the principles also have a great importance for altmetrics and should be taken into account in their application.Originality/value– Altmetrics is already frequently used in the area of research evaluation. Thus, it is important that the user of altmetrics data knows the relevance of the Leiden manifesto also in this area.
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Base Score Contribution
0.449
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.895
From 13 citing papers with measurable signal
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DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 33% comes from its base citations and 67% from the citation network (13 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
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