Purpose: Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke, and Rafols
(2015) have formulated the so-called
Leiden manifesto, in which they have assembled the ten principles for a
meaningful evaluation of research on the basis of bibliometric data.
Approach: In this work the attempt is made to indicate the relevance of
the Leiden manifesto for altmetrics.
Results: As shown by the discussion of the ten principles against the
background of the knowledge about and the research into altmetrics, the
principles also have a great importance for altmetrics and should be taken into
account in their application.
Originality: Altmetrics is already frequently used in the area of
research evaluation. Thus, it is important that the user of altmetrics data knows
the relevance of the Leiden manifesto also in this area.