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Beyond citations — Demonstrate your research impact with alternative metrics
Introduction to Altmetrics Alternative metrics (also known as altmetrics) indicate the attention of scientific outputs which are shared, mentioned, and discussed in online environments, which are derived from users’ actions on various social media platforms and other online sources (e.g., Wikipedia) [1]. Altmetric.com is a platform to find altmetrics for research outputs by tracking a…
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Ways to boost your citations – Data Sharing
Data sharing is getting support from the academic communities as favourable practice in scholarly publishing. It can enable researchers to replicate findings, build on others’ expertise, and reuse existing data for making new discoveries (Gilmore et al., 2018). While it brings key benefits to scientific progress and the whole research community, at the individual level,…
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