As scholarly communication evolves, alternative measures of impact and reach are taking an increasingly important role in the research evaluation process. Following a number of constructive workshops over the last few years, we now invite you to join us this September for the 1st Altmetrics Conference: London.
We will be taking a closer look at how authors, readers, funders, publishers and institutions are beginning to integrate altmetrics into their scholarly communication processes — and the challenges that they face along the way.
With a quick overview of recent developments and future plans, we will aim to better understand how and why altmetrics can be of use to the community — and draw further inspiration from those outside academia.
Additionally, the scope of the workshop will expand to examine online behaviour at a more granular level; how and why do people share and discuss scholarly content online, and what is the impact of this?