Medição da informação científica na Web 2.0: explorando as possibilidades e limitações da plataforma Altmetric: exploring Altmetric's platafform possibilities and limitations

Janinne Barcelos de Morais Silva; João  de Melo Maricato; Diego José Macêdo

doi:10.18225/ci.inf.v49i3.5657

Authors

Janinne Barcelos de Morais Silva UnB https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9414
João de Melo Maricato https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-6866
Diego José Macêdo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-0639

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18225/ci.inf.v49i3.5657

Keywords:

Informetrics., Social media, Social web, Altmetric tools, Altmetrics

Abstract

With the evolution of the Internet, new ways of collaboratively creating and sharing knowledge emerged, culminating in the Web 2.0 (Web social). With the evolution of the Internet, emerge new ways of creating and sharing knowledge collaboratively, culminating in the Web 2.0 (Web social). The products resulted from academic and scientific activities also began to circulate in the social media, inspiring the interest of researchers in the measurement and study of actions and interactions related to such activities, arising altmetrics. Since then, technologies, tools and platforms have been created to measure these phenomena, and Altmetric, from Digital Science, is currently the main platform for collecting altmetrics data. This research aims to explore the possibilities, limitations and structural characteristics of Altmetric as a source of data and altmetric indicators. The platform is analyzed in an exploratory and experimental way, based on data from SciELO’s collection and an interview with Altmetric's director of research relations, Stacy Konkiel. As a result, several possibilities, limitations and characteristics related to the conceptual foundations and the production of the platform indicators were presented and discussed, as well as the types of sources / data tracked; coverage range; calculation of the Altmetric score; popularity and media coverage; possibilities of studying correlations between citations and mentions.

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Author Biographies

Janinne Barcelos de Morais Silva, UnB

Doutoranda em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB) – Brasília, DF - Brasil. Mestre em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) – GO - Brasil. Assistente de pesquisa do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict) – Brasília, DF – Brasil.
João de Melo Maricato

Pós-Doutorado pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB) – Brasília, DF - Brasil. Doutor em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) - São Paulo, SP – Brasil. Professor da Universidade de Brasília (UnB) – Brasília, DF – Brasil.
Diego José Macêdo

Mestre em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB) – Brasília, DF – Brasil. Tecnologista do Instituto Brasileiro de Informações em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) – Brasília, DF – Brasil.

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