دور الألتمتريقا في قياس تأثير المنتجات العلمية والفكرية: بحث وثائقي

الملخص EN

Altmetrics is one of the recent impact measures to measure all sources of information without bias or exception.

These measurements are completely dependent on the Web 2.0 environment to track posts, comments and public discussions around research products in the social media, as they are not only based on reference citations that are considered in the traditional measurements but considered them as one of the factors in a variety of other measurements.

Since the start of talking about these measurements, a number of services and tools have emerged which are developed continuously.

Like any new field, it has its supporters and opponents due to the restrictions, problems and manipulations that face the application of these measurements.

That is why this study targeted the concept of altmetrics and the advantages of their application, the expected disadvantages behind their use, as well as the methods of manipulation used by researchers and publishers and ways to confront them.

The researcher has depended on documentary approach to discuss the topic of altmetrics, and then explain the related terms, and describe them accurately.

This study found that the altmetrics is one of the new measurements as a branch of the scientometrics stemming from the informetrics.

It mainly focuses on capturing, collecting and analyzing data of the impact of research products on the web environment.

Therefore, this study recommends the necessity of concerting the efforts of the academic and research institutions to spread awareness of the use and the application of altmetrics in the academic community, as well as encourages the researchers to publish and share their researches on social media platforms.