The Altmetrics of Henk Moed’s Publications

Henk Moed’s scientific works are well known. He is a prolific author whose publications have been highly cited through the years. With hundreds of publications indexed in various databases, his profile features thousands of citations and a high h-index. Henk’s work includes collaborations with over 60 authors from 30 countries spanning across continents including Europe, America, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Australia. Henk published in 31 different journals covering a variety of disciplines such as computer science, engineering, decision sciences and of course, social sciences which include bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Citations information about Henk’s work can easily be found on Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. However, not a lot is known about the altmetric impact of his work. This chapter will focus on some of the main altmetric indicators of Henk’s work including usage (downloads, views etc.), readership, and social media attention. The results shed light on how his publications are viewed, read, shared and tweeted about not only by professionals, but also by students, research policy makers, scientist and the wider public interested in research assessment and other topics in which Henk published so far.