Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Conference to be held at April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is November 12, 2012. Including the following topics: libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives new publics, movements going global and communities of the future manifestos for the next generation new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games ways of working - methodologies, code, communities, funding future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need visualization and data-driven futures mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures crowdsourcing (and/in) the future teleologies and their discontents new and imagined creative practices

"a study is undertaken of a selection of papers from the fie ld of c ommunication, comparing the number of cit ations received with their 2.0 i ndicators. The results s how that the most cited articles within recent years also have significantly hi gher altmetric indicators. Next follows a review of the principal empirical studies undertaken, centering on the correlations between bibliometric and al ternative indicators. To conclude, the main limitations of altmetrics are highlighted , alongside a reflective consideration of the role altmetrics may play in capturing the impact of research in Web 2.0 platforms"

A review of new scholarly publishing metrics and how they compare to traditional impact measures.