From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:51:02 -0400

Worth a detour.  How can/will ALMs interact or intersect with today's
journal title level measurement tools?  Ann Okerson

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http://www.sparc.arl.org/bm~doc/sparc-alm-primer.pdf

By Greg Tananbaum
April 16, 2013

Today, SPARC released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics
-- A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an
emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level
Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how
individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. This new
SPARC primer is designed to give campus leaders and other interested
parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they
complement established utilities and metrics, and how they might be
considered for use in the tenure and promotion process.