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new tools challenge the monopoly of the impact factor as the only measure of the quality of research, but below? Join our live chat, Sept. 21, to discuss the feasibility of altmetrics

"Nobody can read everything. Filters We have to give a sense of the academic literature, but the narrow filters are traditional flooded. Nevertheless, the growth of new online tools allows us to academic new filters, which reflect the impact of the rapid and extensive research altmetrics this thriving ecosystem asked for more tools and research based altmetrics "

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This quote is from the introduction of altmetrics manifest. And the reason is obvious, but a mission statement or vision, probably because changing the way they measure the impact of the student will need some sort of revolution - any revolution is not complete without a manifest

Why a revolution? Existed before because the tools to do something about it, many in the research community have lamented the impact factor of field research took place during the research funding, careers and reputations. As bloggers Victor Manning and William Gunn wrote: "The influence is only one dimension of importance." Others include scarecrows slow peer review and the fact that the impact is not bound in an article, but rather a magazine that this blog points university of the kitchen.

Now, however, the tools exist to consider what other factors may be used to determine the importance, and are refined per day. Other indicators (altmetrics or as they are called) brought together geeks and nerds research eager to define their own measures of excellence. Although many communities that form Academia.edu register, or total Mendeley shocks are new changes in the broader field of research (ie the growing support of open access and policy changes mandating impact measurement) gave new urgency altmetrics. altmetrics But they are not universally popular. One working on the site, writes: "[] Impact factors can be (and are) manipulated to some extent ... but alt in total, the final figure, mega, etc are much worse because the link with research quality is less direct, and according to some indicators, such as Twitter activity is non-existent. Furthermore, these parameters are much easier to handle. " So what does the future hold for the impact assessment? How these new measures are developed and how they are likely to be adopted by the industry? Perhaps more importantly, altmetrics against the abuses of impact factors or simply create their own abuse, especially when importance is determined by the influence of social media.

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Marie McVeigh, director, JCR and political literature, Thomson Reuters

Mary is the editor of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) bibliographic and politics and the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters science company. She has studied and published citation analysis, bibliometrics, open access, and other areas where the publishing and information intersect. @ TR_ScienceWatch

Heather Piwowar, co-founder, the total impact

Heather Piwowar is co-founder of the overall impact, an online tool that enables researchers and organizations to tell the full story of its impact on research. Heather is also a post-doctoral researcher at Duke University and the University of British Columbia, studies how scientists share and reuse of research data. @ Researchremix

William Gunn, Director of Studies awareness Mendeley

Mendeley is a research tool in leading management collaboration and discovery. Frustrated by the lack of efficiency of the process of modern research, William left academia and established Genalyte biology program, a start-up diagnostics. From there, he moved to Mendeley to continue its mission to provide the efficiency of a modern academic research network. @ Mrgunn

Rachel Armstrong, a professor at the University of Greenwich

Rachel Thad is an analyst and author based electronic publishing in San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia. His site, The future of publishing provides a complete and thorough analysis of the industry. Thad has been written about the publication and member of the editorial board of the journal Learned Publishing and Canadian literary magazine, Geist. @ ThadMcIlroy

Alessandra Tosi, CEO, Open Book Publishers

Alessandra is an academic and co-founder and CEO of Open Book Publishers, a social enterprise dedicated to OA publishing textbooks and textbooks. Open the book was created by a group of Cambridge University in 2008 - since then we have published over 20 books - all free to read online in its entirety. @ Openbookpublish

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