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Interesting article on InsideHigherEd on the development of bibliometrics to accommodate social media use in science. One particularly interesting aspect is the commercial considerations and how these interact with the academic. /...
.../ Clearly publishers will be interested in how metrics affect their commercial interests, as will libraries and academic institutions. Bibliometrics are transparently about the behaviour of groups of academics with respect to particular publication media - but the non-academic parameters are less frequently appreciated.
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