Are Altmetrics Proxies or Complements to Citations for Assessing Impact in Computer Science?

Yusra Shakeel; Rand Alchokr; Jacob Krüger; Gunter Saake; Thomas Leich

doi:10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00037

Are Altmetrics Proxies or Complements to Citations for Assessing Impact in Computer Science?

Yusra Shakeel, Rand Alchokr, Jacob Krüger, Gunter Saake, Thomas Leich

Engineering of Software-Intensive Systems

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Altmetrics represent an alternative to established citation-based metrics to measure the scientific impact of a publication. For instance, they cover social-media platforms (e.g., Twitter, YouTube) to elicit how individuals outside of the scientific community interact with publications. Still, it is somewhat unclear to what extent Altmetrics are a valuable addition to existing metrics, or may represent only proxies without additional value. In this paper, we present our current steps towards understanding this problem in more detail. To this end, we describe and discuss the results of an initial correlation study that revealed significant positive correlations of different strengths between four categories of Altmetrics and citations. We elaborate on potential causes for, and the impact of, these correlations to define steps for future research aimed at understanding the value of Altmetrics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2021
Editors	J. Stephen Downie, Dana McKay, Hussein Suleman, David M. Nichols, Faryaneh Poursardar
Publisher	IEEE Press
Pages	284-286
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665417709
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00037
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Keywords

Altmetrics
Literature analysis
Quality

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Shakeel, Y., Alchokr, R., Krüger, J., Saake, G., & Leich, T. (2021). Are Altmetrics Proxies or Complements to Citations for Assessing Impact in Computer Science? In J. S. Downie, D. McKay, H. Suleman, D. M. Nichols, & F. Poursardar (Eds.), Proceedings - 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2021 (pp. 284-286). IEEE Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00037

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Are Altmetrics Proxies or Complements to Citations for Assessing Impact in Computer Science? / Shakeel, Yusra; Alchokr, Rand; Krüger, Jacob et al.
Proceedings - 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2021. ed. / J. Stephen Downie; Dana McKay; Hussein Suleman; David M. Nichols; Faryaneh Poursardar. IEEE Press, 2021. p. 284-286.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review