Smith Derek R, Watson Roger
James Cook University, Australia.
University of Hull, UK.
J Adv Nurs. 2016 Nov;72(11):2654-2661. doi: 10.1111/jan.13067. Epub 2016 Aug 1.
A discussion of bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media for the contemporary nursing scholar and academic researcher.
Today's nursing academic faces myriad challenges in balancing their daily life and, in recent years, academic survival has been increasingly challenged by the various research assessment exercises that evaluate the performance of knowledge institutions. As such, it is essential that today's nursing academic keep up to date with the core competencies needed for survival in a modern research career, particularly the intersecting triad of bibliometrics, altmetrics and social media.
Discussion paper.
Published literature and relevant websites.
The rise of social media and altmetrics has important implications for contemporary nursing scholars who publish their research. Some fundamental questions when choosing a journal might be 'does it have a Twitter and/or Facebook site, or a blog (or all three)'; and 'does it have any other presence on social media, such as LinkedIn, Wikipedia, YouTube, ResearchGate and so on?' Another consequence of embracing social media is that individual academics should also develop their own strategies for promoting and disseminating their work as widely as possible.
The rising importance of social media and altmetrics can no longer be ignored, and today's nursing academic now has another facet to consider in their scholarly activities. Despite the changing nature of research dissemination, however, it is still important to recognize the undoubted value of established knowledge dissemination routes (that being the peer-reviewed publication).
为当代护理学者和学术研究人员探讨文献计量学、替代计量学和社交媒体。
当今的护理学者在平衡日常生活方面面临着无数挑战，近年来，学术生存越来越受到评估知识机构绩效的各种研究评估活动的挑战。因此，当今的护理学者必须跟上现代研究职业生存所需的核心能力，特别是文献计量学、替代计量学和社交媒体这一交叉的三元组。
讨论文件。
已发表的文献和相关网站。
社交媒体和替代计量学的兴起对发表研究成果的当代护理学者具有重要意义。选择期刊时的一些基本问题可能是“它有推特和/或脸书网站，或者博客（或三者都有）吗？”以及“它在社交媒体上还有其他存在形式吗，比如领英、维基百科、YouTube、ResearchGate等等？”接受社交媒体的另一个后果是，个体学者也应该制定自己的策略，尽可能广泛地推广和传播他们的作品。
社交媒体和替代计量学日益重要，不容忽视，当今的护理学者在其学术活动中现在又有了一个需要考虑的方面。然而，尽管研究传播的性质不断变化，但认识到既定知识传播途径（即同行评审出版物）的无疑价值仍然很重要。
