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crln-8960	Lapinski, Scott; Piwowar, Heather; Priem, Jason	Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics	2013-06-01	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2020	94	46	Altmetrics can help researchers, funders, and administrators opti- mize for the mix of flavors that best fits their particular goals.6 Other noteworthy research has examined correlations between altmetrics and tradi- tional citations finding that some altmetrics sources, particularly Mendeley, are signifi- cantly correlated with citation (around .5 in several studies).7,8,9 This same research shows that other sources, like Facebook bookmarks, correlated only slightly with citations; this suggests that they track different kinds of impacts. Libraries should take advantage of op- portunities to demonstrate ImpactStory or other altmetrics tools to multiple constitu- ency groups and share visual information on how these metrics have been integrated into a researcher’s profile.	cache/crln-8960.pdf	txt/crln-8960.txt