The phrase "alternative metrics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods or measures for evaluating performance or success, particularly in fields like academia, business, or social media.
Example: "In addition to traditional citation counts, researchers are increasingly considering alternative metrics to assess the impact of their work."
Alternatives: "non-traditional metrics" or "different evaluation measures".
The performance of this metric is compared with alternative metrics such as the enrichment factor, the relative enrichment factor, the receiver operating curve enrichment factor, the correct classification rate, Matthews correlation coefficient and Cohen's kappa coefficient.
This definition is consistent with available variations of heat indices (Perkins and Alexander 2013) and consistent with findings in NYC that mortality increased nonlinearly with lags (1 2 days) when the maximum heat index reached 90 100°F, and this exposure metric worked as well or better than alternative metrics (Metzger et al. 2010).
Alternative metrics, or altmetrics as they are more commonly known, have received a lot of attention recently.
Alternative metrics (or altmetrics as they are known) have brought together the tech geeks and the research nerds who are eager to define their own measures of excellence.
Tracking the referencing of published research in policy documents lifts alternative metrics out of the unscholarly tweet counting (where the discussion of the value is ongoing), and would be useful for all disciplines; Stem and non-Stem alike.
Mendeley's open research database, which provides metadata and real-time readership statistics, is queried more than 100 million times per month by "altmetrics" (alternative metrics) apps such as Total-Impact.org, Readermeter.org, or Altmetric.com.
Now these organizations and various others, like the Brookings Institution and the Center for American Progress, are hoping to finally capture more attention for their own alternative metrics and reports.
Alternative metrics organizations and proponents often use the word "story" to describe their final, ideal product, instead of words such as "metric" or "score".
StatusPeople, and the headlines it's generated, may drive more people to alternative metrics of popularity, such as Klout, which quantifies follower engagement in addition to volume.
These alternative metrics can significantly reduce the overshoot in radiative forcing observed with the GWP, at a small cost in energy consumption.
The purpose of this paper is to describe certain alternative metrics for quantifying distances between distributions, and to explain their use and relevance in visual tracking.
