Browsing by Author "Kumar, Ashok"

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    Altmetrics: The Emerging Alternative Metrics for Web Research Analysis
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Kumar, Ashok; Shivarama, J; Angadi, Mallikarjun; Choukimath, Puttaraj A
    The use of web 2.0 is becoming the essential part of present day life. People are spending time for many purposes and academic activities among these uses of web 2.0 social media services by users are prominent for searching, sharing, discussing, and messaging of scholarly content. The wider use of social media has given birth to various buzz words and ‘altmetrics’ is one of them. In simple words, altmetrics provides online measurement of scholars or scholarly content derived from the web 2.0 social media platforms. Altmetrics is diversified in nature and categorised in five categories i.e. (i) recommended (ii) cited (iii) saved (iv) discussed and (v) viewed. Altmetrics are becoming widely used by publishers (for showcasing research impact of authors over readers), librarians and repository managers (for adding value to their libraries and institutional repositories) and by the researchers (for complementing reading by instantly visualising papers online attention).
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    Popular Scientometric Analysis, Mapping and Visualisation Softwares: An Overview
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2015-03-12) Kumar, Ashok; J, Shivarama; Choukimath, Puttaraj A
    Measurement of scientific productivity has been regarded as main indicator of ascertaining impact of research over scientific community. To showcase the impact of research using science mapping and visualisation, social network analysis has been developed over the period of time. These methods help researchers to understand the structural, temporal and dynamic development of a discipline. The present paper provides a comprehensive overview of widely used softwares used for scientometric analysis,mapping and visualisation.