Authors of scientific articles, institutes, and foundations that sponsor research should know how their works affect science and the world. With the growth of the Internet, the old measurement ways of this impact failed to run the gamut. Links of articles refer to social media, Wikipedia, and personal blogs, but no one included them into account - there was no possibility to do it but in 2010, the term "altmetrics" and tools "altmetrics" were created.

In our new article about the evolution of the infometrics, which solves the problem of analyzing scientific publications, we tell about the way to track altmetrics on your Drupal site using our module.

What is Altmetrics