4. Limits and prospects
4.1 Limits
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Differences between platforms
The first observation we can make is the differences in the data collected and aggregated by the various services and tools. These differences relate in particular to :
the number of sources ;
the level of detail. For example, Plum Analytics collects Facebook "likes" as well as comments and shares, while ImpactStory collects only shares;
values for metrics from the same source ;
the number of DOIs collected.
This can be explained by a number of factors:
services do...
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Bibliography
Websites
ORCID http://orcid.org/
Platforms
PLoS
Plos Article-level metrics http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/
...Software tools
Lagotto software http://lagotto.io/
Events
Altmetrics workshop, ACM Web Science Conference http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics15/
Altmetrics Conference http://www.altmetricsconference.com/
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