英文摘要 |
Social enterprise (social entrepreneurship) is a new field that combines non-profit with for-profit organizational features. It develops innovative methods and strategies to improve profit for the purpose of creating and maintaining social value. Social enterprise is not only important for scholarly and practical business management, but also has an impact on several disciplines, such as education, law, political science, sociology, etc. Informetrics is one kind of methods for exploring scholarly communications. Some researchers have applied informetrics to analysize social enterprise literatures; however, the sample data all comes from typical indexing and abstracting databases among existing studies. Webmetrics is one branch of informetrics, furthermore, altmetrics is hot topic in webmetrics. Because social enterprise is a new and developing discipline, there might be different results of the pattern of scholarly communications with typical bibliometrics and altmetrics. Therefore, this study applied altmetrics to explore the emerging discipline with analyzing 808 social enterprise literatures, including acquiring almetrics from Altmetric Badges and PlumX, and comparing altmetrics with citations from Web of Science database and Google Scholar. |