The new information science field Altmetrics covers studies and tools which aim at measuring the impact and effects of web communication on scientific communities. In the focus of Altmetrics are social media communication places and collaborative web tools, but also counting web citations of publications (e.g. via Google Scholar or Mendeley) can enhance traditional bibliometric assessments by ‘webometrics’. The basic assumption of Altmetrics is that more and more scholarly communication and collaboration will take place in the internet, and that this development will enable information services to monitor scientific disciplines via altmetric indicators representing web activities.

This paper will present a research and development scenario for measuring and monitoring the field of educational research in terms of web activities. For the following work program the state-of-the-art, first results of analyses and planned steps will be presented:

• Current representation of different scientific disciplines of educational research (researchers, institutes, publications) in the web
• First indicators of dynamics of web representation of educational research (corpora and algorythms)
• Changing role of web activities in the scholarly community of educational research
• Anlyses of existing altmetric services and community plattforms
• Extended research plan

The presentation also aims at finding European cooperation partners for a medium term research and development program.

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