Proposal for Alfred P. Sloan Grant #2014-3-25 "to support greater understanding of social media in scholarly communication and the actual meaning of various altmetrics"

full proposal submitted to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation by Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein (University of Montreal), Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Indiana University Bloomington) and Sean Takats (Zotero, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media)

The grant #2014-3-25 "to support greater understanding of social media in scholarly communication and the actual meaning of various altmetrics" was awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the University of Montreal in April 2014 for a period of 2 years.

More information on the project website: http://crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca/sloan/