This initial question addresses the conceptual foundation of any database model for a scholarly metric. What are the relationship and entities that the metric attempts to capture? Traditional citations track textual references in scholarly articles to other publications and altmetrics capture various types of activities on the web in general related to scholarly literature. However, is there an underlying model that explains the kinds acts and events that are captured in scholarly metrics?
This initial question addresses the conceptual foundation of any database model for a scholarly metric. What are the relationship and entities that the metric attempts to capture? Traditional citations track textual references in scholarly articles to other publications and altmetrics capture various types of activities on the web in general related to scholarly literature. However, is there an underlying model that explains the kinds acts and events that are captured in scholarly metrics?