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	Chỉ số Altmetrics và Chỉ số ở cấp độ bài báo	Công cụ quản lý trích dẫn
Lĩnh vực	Kỹ năng nghiên cứu	Kỹ năng nghiên cứu
Họ	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Năm ra đời	2010 (concept manifesto); 2011 (Altmetric.com platform launch)	2001 (modern era, EndNoteWeb); 2006 (Mendeley); 2006 (Zotero)
Người khởi xướng	Jason Priem and the altmetrics community (2010)	Academic researchers and librarians; developed since 1980s
Loại	Tool	Tool
Công trình gốc	Priem, J., Taraborelli, D., Groth, P., & Neylon, C. (2010). Altmetrics: A manifesto. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/	Booth, A. (2012). Citation management tools. In R. Bosch & K. Winn (Eds.), Reference management and citation software. Library Technology Reports, 48(5), 12–18.
Tên gọi khác	altmetrics, article-level metrics, alternative impact metrics	reference manager, citation software, bibliographic management
Liên quan	4	3
Tóm tắt	Altmetrics (alternative metrics) measure the online attention and societal impact of research by tracking mentions in social media (Twitter), news outlets, policy documents, blogs, videos, and other online sources. Introduced formally in 2010 by Jason Priem and colleagues, altmetrics address limitations of citation-based assessment: citation counts accumulate slowly (taking years for impact to register), do not capture policy influence, and are biased toward certain fields (biomedicine receives more citations than social sciences). Altmetric.com, PlumX, and other platforms now provide real-time data on research reach, complementing traditional journal impact factors and H-indices. While altmetrics should not replace peer-reviewed citations for tenure and promotion, they offer valuable insight into public engagement with research.	Citation management tools are software applications that store, organize, and format bibliographic references. They allow researchers to import citations from databases and websites, annotate and tag articles, organize references by project, and automatically generate formatted in-text citations and bibliographies in multiple styles (APA, Vancouver, Chicago, Harvard). Popular tools include Zotero (free, open-source), Mendeley (Elsevier-owned, freemium), EndNote (commercial, Clarivate), and others. These tools are essential for managing the hundreds to thousands of references accumulate during a research career and for ensuring consistent, accurate citation formatting in academic writing.