Just realized that the #Altmetric score of a paper keeps on going up when people/journalists tweet/write about its #retraction :blobfacepalm:

https://nature.altmetric.com/details/28130609/twitter

#publishing #science #publishers #metrics #research

Using Altmetric data for 2022, Carbon Brief has compiled its list of the 25 most talked-about climate or energy-related papers that were published the previous year.
#CarbonBrief #Climate #Energy #Media #Altmetric

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2022/

Apparently I was looking up #Altmetric at some point in the last few months and left that tab open. Does anyone actually use it actively and for what? I'm guessing #mastodon is not actually included (yet?) Which is a pity..

Suggestions on what and how and why to use #Altmetrics welcome, på forhånd tak🙏

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https://www.altmetric.com/audience/researchers/

#Altmetric's inclusion of social media in its metric is nice on paper, but I realized it is a bit silly. Write a paper with a really bad take -> infuriate a lot of Twitteratti giving critical responses -> get high values of Altmetric.

Use of #citations as a metric has the same problem. No one would have the tools to verify whether all these citations are +ve or -ve!

@tfardet Looks like an applause button with some integration with ORCID. For example like:

https://applause-button.com/

Which may not necessarily indicate the value of the paper. Also, looks like it is neither decentralized nor open-source. Anyways, I am unsure how such applications can be decentralized

#Altmetric on the other hand is a step in the right direction, because it would include citations + "mentions" of publication across the web. See for example:

https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication