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Altmetrics: the movement, the tools, and the implications Kimberley R. Barker, MLIS Andrea H. Denton, MILS January 27, 2015

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Altmetrics: the movement, the tools, and the implications

Kimberley R. Barker, MLIS Andrea H. Denton, MILS

January 27, 2015

Defining altmetrics • J. Priem (@jasonpriem), I like the term

#articlelevelmetrics, but it fails to imply *diversity* of measures. Lately, I’m liking altmetrics., 4:28 AM - 29 Sep 10, Tweet

• “…the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.”

– http://altmetrics.org/about/

Awareness, not promotion!

Why should you care?

Br J Sports Med doi:10.1136/bjsports-2013-092417

Before altmetrics…

• Traditional products and measures of academic success

– Publications

– Conference presentations/posters

– Committee work

– Number of times your work was cited

– Impact Factor and journal rank

– H-index

From metrics to altmetrics

Measures

Traditional

Research Products

Trad

itio

nal

- Article - Chapter - Books

Times Cited Impact Factor + Rank

H-index

From metrics to altmetrics

Measures

Traditional New

Research Products

Trad

itio

nal

- Article - Chapter - Books

Times Cited Impact Factor +

Rank H-index

Page Views Downloads

The definition of scholarly output is changing

• NSF “Publications” broadened to “Products of Research” As of Jan 2013 – “citable and accessible including but not limited to publications, data sets, software, patents, and copyrights."

From metrics to altmetrics

Measures

Traditional New

Research Products

Tr

adit

ion

al

- Article - Chapter - Books

Times Cited Impact Factor +

Rank H-index

Page Views

N

ew

- Datasets - Blog post - More

None

Downloads

Reblogs

Examples of additional scholarly output/professional contributions

• Blogs

• Invited Interviews

• Twitter

• Facebook

• Reddit

• Datasets

• Patents

• Software

• Copyrights

More examples of “altmeasuring”

• Downloads and page views

• Track-backs

• Tweets and retweets

• Links from review services (e.g. Facultyof1000)

• Sharing, social bookmarking

Other forces at work

• Increasing requirements for open data

– Foundation funding (e.g. Gates)

– Government funding

• Big data

• Predatory publishing

Tools

Journal-level tools

• Each publisher does it a slightly different way

BMC Neuroscience via SpringerLink

Early tools for non-traditional products

• Measured web views and downloads

–Google Analytics

–Bit.ly

– Spring Metrics

Leading tools for altmetrics

• Evolved to address non-traditional scholarship as well as traditional “outputs”

– ImpactStory

– Altmetric.com

– PlumX

Impactstory

• “Impactstory is a place to learn and share all the ways your research is making a difference”

• Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar

• Free for 30 days, then $60 a year.

Sample Impactstory Profile

Profile Metrics

Article Details

Altmetric.com

• London-based start-up

• Funding from Digital Science (LabGuru, FigShare)

Altmetric’s widget (“donut”)

• Used by publishers/journals

– Nature Publishing, Cell Press

– Springer

– BioMed Central

– BMJ Specialty journals

Nature Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience

Altmetric Explorer

• Subscription product – monitor, search and measure conversations about your publications and those of your competitors

• “Pricing options”

Altmetric Bookmarklet

• Free

• Reading a paper and want to find out its Altmetric details? Install the bookmarklet in your browser

• When viewing the paper, “Altmetric it”

Altmetric Bookmarklet

Plum Analytics

• Gathers metrics (altmetrics) about research from more than thirty sources including PLOS, PubMed and YouTube, and categorizes them

• PlumX is an institutional “impact dashboard” that provides information on how research output is being utilized, interacted with, and talked about around the world.

Plum Analytics

• PlumX Metric Categories

– Usage (downloads, views, ILL)

– Captures (favorites, bookmarks)

– Mentions (blog posts, news, Wikipedia)

– Social Media (tweets, likes)

– Citations (PubMed, Scopus, patents)

PlumX in Action

• Pitt PlumX “dashboard” https://plu.mx/pitt/g/

• Michael Pinsky, MD https://plu.mx/u/mpinsky

PlumX Author Profile

Article View

However…

• Standards aren’t fully defined

– Definitions, calculations, etc.

– NISO effort

• Are altmetrics important for discovery? For evaluation? Both?

Issues

Issues

• Impact vs. attention

–David C.’s Improbable Science… “Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares”

http://www.dcscience.net/?p=6369

• Popularity

–Popular topics get higher counts, quickly, but then fade. How does this reflect quality?

Issues

• Does social media help promote good science? Or not? (e.g. anti-vaccine)

Altmetrics: worth pursuing? If you think “yes”…

What you can do now

• Check what measurements/metrics are available for your articles

• Consider deposit of your other “products of research”

What you can do now

• Investigate use of free measurement tools (Altmetric bookmarklet, ImpactStory profile)

• Set up social media profiles and lurk

• Experiment with low-commitment activities

Example

• Choose a journal/database

• Find one of your articles

• Check the altmetrics

• Go to Twitter

• Search for your discipline/area of research

• See what information has been shared/who is sharing it

Kimberley R. Barker, MLIS [email protected]

Andrea H. Denton, MLIS

[email protected]

Questions?