Julio Alonso-Arévalo

Altmetrics pueden no seguir siendo alternativa por mucho tiempo

espanolIntroduccion y objetivo: La irrupcion de internet y de los medios sociales esta teniendo una poderosa influencia en las formas en que los investigadores descubren, acceden, procesan y comunican la informacion. Los metodos utilizados por los sistemas de medicion del impacto de un documento cientifico utilizados durante los ultimos cuarenta anos, ya en entredicho, se estan manifestando mas claramente insuficientes en este nuevo contexto, ya que no proporcionan informacion de todas las interacciones que se producen en los nuevos medios sociales. Altmetrics surge como un recurso complementario y no excluyente de las metricas tradicionales para proporcionar una vision mas rica de la influencia de una investigacion. Metodo: Revision narrativa. En este articulo se hace un analisis de las implicaciones de almetrics, ventajas, inconvenientes, y logros. Resultados: Se considera que altmetrics proporciona una vision mas amplia de las implicaciones sociales de la investigacion mas alla de las puramente academicas. Discusion: Aun no es facil desentranar cual es el significado de altmetrics y que tipo de impacto mide exactamente. Conclusiones: Altmetrics aunque aun no es considerado por las agencias de acreditacion cientifica, ya esta siendo utilizado por algunos de los mas importantes editores, ya que proporciona una imagen inmediata del impacto de una investigacion, y a la larga puede ser un mecanismos para predecir el futuro impacto academico de una investigacion, aun quedan muchos aspectos a tener en cuenta como todos los relativos a la normalizacion de fuentes y metodos de compilacion de los resultados, pero podemos decir que altmetrics ha llegado y tendra que ser tenido en cuenta en un futuro inmediato por parte de los organismos de acreditacion y financiacion de la investigacion. EnglishIntroduction and objective: The emergence of the Internet and social media is having a powerful influence on the ways in which researchers discover, access, process and communicate information. The methods used by systems measuring the impact of a scientific paper used during the last forty years, and questioned, are demonstrating more clearly insufficient in this new context, they do not provide information of all interactions that occur in the new social media. Altmetrics emerges as a complementary resource and does not exclude traditional metrics to provide a richer view of the influence of an investigation. Method: Narrative review. This article presents an analysis of the implications of altmetrics, advantages, disadvantages, and achievements made. Results: It is considered that altmetrics provides a broader view of the social implications of research beyond the purely academic. Discussion: While it is not easy to disentangle what is the meaning of altmetrics and what kind of impact accurately measures. Conclusions: altmetrics although it is not yet considered by the agencies of scientific accreditation, is already being used by some of the most important publishers, as it provides an immediate picture of the impact of an investigation, and ultimately may be a mechanism to predict the future academic impact of research, there are still many aspects to consider as all related to standardization of sources and methods of compilation of the results, but we can say that has altmetrics come and will have to be taken into account in the immediate future by lso accreditation bodies and research funding.

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