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Abstract
The analysis of alternative metrics for assessing research impact (“altmetrics”) in Chemistry fifteen years after the introduction of new metrics originally conceived to complement citation-based metrics suggests three main outcomes whose consequences are of direct relevance to research chemists. All major publishers in the chemical sciences quickly adopted commercial altmetric badges provided by companies aggregating data on “online conversations” concerning research papers. Yet chemistry papers remained among the least discussed studies online. Following assessment of the state of altmetrics in the chemical sciences and the relationship between altmetric impact and citations, this study suggests why chemistry scholars should be interested in altmetrics.
