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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Web of Science and its corresponding Journal Impact Factor are inadequate for an understanding of the impact of scholarly work from developing regions, argues </span></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-developing-regions/#author">Juan
Pablo Alperin</a>.</span></strong><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Alternative metrics offer a great opportunity to redirect incentive structures towards problems that contribute to development, or at least to local priorities. But the
altmetrics community needs to actively engage with scholars from developing regions to ensure the new metrics do not continue to cater to well-known and well-established networks.</span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-developing-regions/"><span style="font-style:normal">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-developing-regions/</span></a>
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