Case Study Using altmetrics at Loughborough University Loughborough University is a leader in knowledge mobilisation, encouraging researchers and lecturers to disseminate outputs as widely as possible and support other colleagues by blogging, tweeting and sharing work. We spoke to Ashley Casey, Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy Loughborough University, about how he uses Altmetric data to disseminate and track his work, and why this is a necessity when having research published in an online journal. Loughborough University - disseminating and tracking research Publishing research When looking to get research published, Ashley will submit work to publishers that are using new technologies and offer added benefits such as providing free e-copies of his research to share, displaying the Altmet

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