Category: Social Media for Academics

“If you use social media then you are not working” – How do social scientists perceive altmetrics and online forms of scholarly communication?

by Taster • March 20, 2019 • Comments Off on “If you use social media then you are not working” – How do social scientists perceive altmetrics and online forms of scholarly communication?

Altmetrics – web-based measures of research usage – have existed for a decade. However, a significant proportion of social science research fails to register any online attention at all. This impairs the usefulness of altmetrics as a tool to understand the relevance of social science research and also suggests social researchers are less inclined to engage in online arenas. In […]