Hi all,

Definitely of interest to people on this list!

-dan

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [kbf] Fwd: Altmetrics could enable scholarship from developing countries to receive due recognition Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:41:07 +0000 From: Shamprasad Pujar pujar@igidr.ac.in Reply-To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum knowledgebrokersforum@dgroups.org To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum knowledgebrokersforum@dgroups.org

Dear All,

This could be of interest to some of you.

best Regards,

Sham -----------------

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za mailto:ismith@sun.ac.za>* <ismith@sun.ac.za mailto:ismith@sun.ac.za> Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:57 PM Subject: [Irtalk] Altmetrics could enable scholarship from developing countries to receive due recognition

/The Web of Science and its corresponding Journal Impact Factor are inadequate for an understanding of the impact of scholarly work from developing regions, argues /*Juan Pablo Alperin http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-developing-regions/#author.*/ Alternative metrics offer a great opportunity to redirect incentive structures towards problems that contribute to development, or at least to local priorities. But the altmetrics community needs to actively engage with scholars from developing regions to ensure the new metrics do not continue to cater to well-known and well-established networks./

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/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-deve... /

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