“The idea that Twitter will substitute for reading a paper is just ludicrous beyond words. Can you imagine the buzz around Peter Higgs’ 1964 papers, or any other serious bit of basic research? If [alt-metrics] were taken seriously for selection and promotion, it would kill serious science,” he said.
via Times Higher Education – Research Intelligence – Alt-metrics: fairer, faster impact data?.
Sigh … will we never tire of constructing straw men?