Relationships between traditional metrics and altmerics: A case analysis of PLoS

Abstract

The possibility of creating and easily distributing something via a digital platform creates an enormous material volume. With the increase of scientific publications it becomes harder for scholars to choose the most related and significant resources from the others (Henning & Gunn, 2012). Bibliometrics measures the impact of scholars between each other, but the impact of articles across the entire web is not limited by this. On the other hand, altmetrics measures the impact of articles from the web, alongside bibliometric data. The aim of this study is to investigate the probable relationships between traditional metrics and altmetrics by analysing the PLoS Article-Level Metric (ALM) dataset.