Since their emergence in 2010, altmetrics have received considerable attention for their potential as new indicators of online influence, and perhaps, even research impact. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, “altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked”. In their article “Altmetrics: A Manifesto”, Jason Priem et al (2010) explained that “with altmetrics, we can crowdsource peer-review. Instead of waiting months for two opinions, an article’s impact might be assessed by thousands of conversations and bookmarks in a week”.

To help SMU researchers discover the online engagement of their scholarly works, the Library has looked into various altmetrics tools and created altmetrics profiles on ImpactStory (https://impactstory.org/) for a few researchers. [Click here to view the altmetric profile of Professor Yang Zhenlin from School of Economics.] To create your altmetrics profile today, please contact Ms Tint Hla Hla Htoo (thhhtoo [at] smu.edu.sg) from the Li Ka Shing Library, Scholarly Communication.  

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