NISO Releases Recommended Practice Covering Outputs of Its Multiyear Project in Alternative Assessment Metrics

NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, announced the publication of its latest Recommended Practice, NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Project, in September 2016. This document is the culmination of a two-phase project initialized in 2013, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and designed to support the uptake of “altmetrics,” additional forms of assessment of scholarly outputs beyond “conventional” citation analysis. To further facilitate adoption of these new assessment measures, the scholarly community developed consensus work via NISO that addresses several areas of the altmetric environment: definitions and use cases; persistent identifiers, output types, and data metrics; and data quality.