My research includes Web citation analysis and online scholarly impact assessment using Web-based quantitative and qualitative research methods. I have tested different Web citation extraction methods and proposed the Integrated Online Impact (IOI, currently also known as Altmetrics) to capture impact indictors from different types of Web documents for research evaluation.  For this purpose, I have used Google (Web/URL citations), Google Scholar, Google Books citations as well as automatic analyses of online syllabuses (education/teaching impact) and PowerPoint presentation files as source of evidence for research impact. Moreover, for the first time we used Image Identification Technology (IIT)to assess the intellectual impact or value of scholarly pictures in astronomy, bioscience and art (how images are used for research). More recently, I have focused on the impact of Social Networking Sites (SNS) in research communication and found some evidence based on the role of YouTube videos and emerging academic social tools such as Academia  and ResearchGate in research communication. We have tested a method and developed and application to extract and filter citations from digitized books indexed by Google Books which can be used for research assessment and in particular in book-based fields.
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