Altmetrics are hereAre you ready to help your faculty?4/10/2014Stacy Konkiel@skonkiel / stacy@impactstory.org

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TODAY’S SCIENCE IS BORN-DIGITAL & INCREASINGLY WEB-NATIVE

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HOW CAN FACULTY CAPTURE THESE IMPACTS?

It used to be simplisticAudience

Scholarly

Measure of Impact

Citing articlesJournal impact factors

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But what about...Different audiences? Different types of

engagement?

views, discussion, saves, citation, recommendation

scholars, public

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We return to our question:

HOW CAN FACULTY CAPTURE THESE IMPACTS?

scholarly publicrecommended faculty of 1000 popular press

cited traditional citation

wikipedia

discussed scholarly blogs blogs, twitter

saved mendeley, citeulike

delicious

read pdf views html views

Altmetrics measure impact...

Data

Analysis

Stories

Conversation

...along every step of the cycle

Citations

Downloads & Pageviews

Post-pub peer review

Post-pub peer review

Brookes PS. (2014) Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action. PeerJ 2:e313 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.313

Software usage

Readership stats

We return again to our question:

HOW CAN FACULTY CAPTURE THESE IMPACTS?

Let’s explore...

HOW CAN LIBRARIANS HELP FACULTY UNDERSTAND THESE IMPACTS?

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Understand altmetricsCorrelations between metricsThelwall M, Haustein S, Larivière V, Sugimoto CR (2013) Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64841. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064841

Jason Priem, Heather A. Piwowar, Bradley M. Hemminger. (2012). Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact. http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4745

Why scholars use social mediaShema H, Bar-Ilan J, Thelwall M (2012) Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information. PLoS ONE 7(5): e35869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035869

Mohammadi, E. and Thelwall, M. (2014), Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.23071

Know when (& which) altmetrics are appropriate to use

scholarly public

recommended faculty of 1000 popular press

cited Scopus/Web of Knowledge/

Google Scholar citation

wikipedia

discussed scholarly blogs blogs, twitter

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Learn & teach the tools

Learn & teach the tools

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What’s cutting-edge today will be commonplace soon.

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