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The research community is continually trying to find the quickest method for evaluating the quality of a scholarly article. Today�s technological advancements and growing communication outlets complicate the meaning of a quality article. Altmetrics attempts to take the place of impact factor and citation counting by predicting the outcome of an article based on the previous behavior of statistics. Perhaps, the best way to evaluate the quality of an article is to look at all of the Altmetrics methods and their relationship to each other. Context explains every Altmetric and is more significant than an article�s popularity. Librarians should guide patrons and researchers alike through these statistics� advantages and disadvantages.
