Altmetrics, currently can be applied to measure the impact factor of the the highly scored paperes based on readers attentions through the social media like Mendely, Twitter, Researchgate, and many others. This approach can be helpful to assess the current readings based on dailly intentions rather than waiting for the paper to get available, used, and cited
Usually altmetrics are correlated to bibliometric indicators. Yet I think altmetrics can only add so information to the research assessment based on bibliometric indicators as are not yet standardized.
Thank you Andrea this is what I reached to on my current research Altmertrics is highly correlated to bibliometric indicatores with the highly scored articles in library and information sciences
Conventional metrics take too long, but I am still a firm believer of citations as the best indicator of paper value. For an older paper I will use citation scores.
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