As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter and other online activity | Science News | Scoop.it
From blogs.lse.ac.uk - November 23, 2011 8:30 AM

The internet seems to have transformed all industries except one: scholarly communication. Jason Priem has studied academics’ use of Twitter and charts terrific interest among academics in the social media tool as an aid to discuss literature, for teaching and to enrich conferences among his results.