Fourth Fifth International Conference on Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2024)
CONTRIMETRICS AND ALTMETRICS AS COMPLEMENTARY INDICATORS FOR ARTICLE IMPACT
NOORHIDAWATI BINTI ABDULLAH Department of Library and Information Science Faculty of Arts and Social Science Universiti Malaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Editor- Malayan Journal of Library & Information Science
Abstract: Traditional measures of academic influence, such as the number of citations, have been supplemented in recent years
by additional indices that capture broader social engagement and the influence of social media on the dissemination of
research output. Alternative metrics, also known as Altmetrics, are increasingly reported to measure the reach and
attention of scholarly work beyond traditional citations and reflect engagement on platorms such as social media and
mass media coverage. Contrimetric, introduced by Kuo in 2023, is a metric that assesses the impact of individual research
articles on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of the respective journal. It provides a deeper understanding of how an article
contributes to its field. This innovative bibliometrics tool helps categorise articles to highlight important contributions.
Contrimetrics provides an improved insight than traditional citation counts by considering the journal's overall citation
performance and highlighting the influence of an article within the scientific community. Previous research has shown a
moderate correlation between traditional bibliometric measures such as citation counts and altmetrics. This study aimed
to investigate the relationship between the newly introduced contrimetric and existing altmetrics to assess articles
impact.
Keywords: CONTRIMETRICS AND ALTMETRICS AS COMPLEMENTARY INDICATORS FOR ARTICLE IMPACT
