Scholarly impact
There are general steps you can take to help with documenting your citation metrics:
[Source: Scholarly Impact and Citation Analysis]
Altmetrics uses non-traditional metrics and is a developing field that seeks to supplement established forms of citation analysis, such as article citation and journal impact factor, with usage measures that can be captured through social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and bibliographic management tools like Mendeley and Zotero.
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