  We measure the impact of "altmetrics" field by deploying altmetrics
indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook,
Google-plus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 2010- 2014. To capture the social
impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt-index,
analogues to h-index. Across the deployed indices, our results have shown high
correlation among the indicators that capture social impact. While we observe
medium Pearson's correlation (\r{ho}= .247) among the alt-index and h-index, a
relatively high correlation is observed between social citations and scholarly
citations (\r{ho}= .646). Interestingly, we find high turnover of social
citations in the field compared with the traditional scholarly citations, i.e.
social citations are 42.2 % more than traditional citations. The social mediums
such as Twitter and Mendeley appear to be the most effective channels of social
impact followed by Facebook and Google-plus. Overall, altmetrics appears to be
working well in the field of "altmetrics".
