Altmetrics 2012 - Workshop on Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web

The increasing quantity and velocity of scientific output is presenting scholars with a deluge of data. There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for both pre-publication filtering (e.g peer review) and post-publication impact filtering (e.g. the Journal Impact Factor).
Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to create new filters. Metrics based on a diverse set of social sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to investigate these altmetrics.
Altmetrics12 encourages continued investigation into the the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship to established measures. Submissions are invited from a variety of areas:
New metrics based on social media
Tracking science communication on the Web
Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics
Peer-review and altmetrics
Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics
This workshop is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 workshop
hosted by WebSci’11.
Workshop organizers
Paul Groth ? VU University Amsterdam, NL
Jason Priem ? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dario Taraborelli ? Wikimedia Foundation, USA