What Is Societal Impact and Where Do Altmetrics Fit into the Equation? is a research paper published in Journal of Altmetrics (2019). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.4. It has been cited 34 times, with 34 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
The expectation that scientific research should provide answers to societal issues and support institutional decision-making is increasing, but still there are no systematic methods of identifying and measuring the wider societal impacts of research. In this article, various views on the meaning of impact, the different types of impact or influence that research can have on the society, and the potential of altmetrics to capture and measure this societal impact will be discussed.
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Base Score Contribution
0.533
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.904
From 26 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 37% comes from its base citations and 63% from the citation network (26 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
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