altmetrics for showing research impact
DESCRIPTION
Presentation to academic librarians in Alberta given November 21, 2014. Part of a panel presentation on research impact measurements.TRANSCRIPT
Robin Featherstone, MLISResearch Librarian, Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta@rmfeatherstonehttp://www.slideshare.net/featherr
Altmetrics for Showing Research Impact
http://www.ualberta.ca/ARCHE/@arche4evidence
21 Nov 2014
Conflict of interest disclosure
• I have had free access to the Altmetric.com Explorer since September 2013
Altmetrics (AKA Social Media Metrics, Alternative Assessment Metrics) …
[…] capture ways in which articles are disseminated throughout the expanding scholarly ecosystem, and reach beyond the scope of traditional trackers and filters.
[…] measure research impact by including references outside of traditional scholarly publishing.
1. Public Library of Science (PLOS). Altmetrics. [29 April 2014]. Available from http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/alt-metrics/
2. Baynes G. Scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics: Some introductory advice for the lost and bemused. Insights. 2012;25(3):311-5. doi: 10.1629/2048-7754.25.3.311.
Altmetric tools measure data collected from:• Tweets
• Blog mentions
• Facebook posts
• Presentations
• News articles
• Shared citations (e.g., Mendeley, CiteULike)
• Data uploads
• Etc.
BIG DATA
Relevant for Research Evaluation?
• Datasets
• Conference posters
• Theses & dissertations
• Lectures, online classes
• Software
• “Nanopublications”
What’s your impact1?
1. Emerald Group Publishing. Impact of Research [11 April 2014]. Available from: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/impact/index.htmhttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/07/14/publishers-measuring-impact/
Agenda
• Researcher-level altmetrics
• Article-level altmetrics
• Integration into impact reports
Researcher case study –Heather Piwowar
• h-index: 8
– 23 articles cited 258 times
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25122628200
Researcher Case Study –Heather Piwowar• Slideshare followers: 85
http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar
• ImpactStory research products: 117http://impactstory.org/HeatherPiwowar
• Figshare views: 1384http://figshare.com/authors/Heather_Piwowar/96399
• GitHub contributions: 1410https://github.com/hpiwowar
• Google Scholar h-index: 13 (51 publications cited 678 times)http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=1YLq0XMAAAAJ&hl=en
• ResearchGate score: 14.33
• Research Gate Impact Points: 50.29https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Piwowar2
Article Case Study –Marshall 2013
• Web of Science times cited: 1
• Google Scholar times cited: 21
• Scopus times cited: 6
Article Case Study –Marshall 2013• Altmetric score: 76
Altmetrics Players
Integration into Research Report
DEFINITIONSh-indexTheh-indexisbasedonalistofpublicationsrankedindescendingorderbythetimescited.Thevalueofhis
equaltothenumberofpapers(N)inthelistthathaveNormorecitations.Forexample,anh-indexof12indicatesthat
inthedataset,12paperswerecitedatleast12timeseach.
AveragecitationsperpaperSumoftheTimesCiteddividedbythenumberofresultsfound.
Journalactual/expectedcitations.Anaggregateratio:thedenominator(expectedcitations)isthesumoftheexpected
citationsofalljournalsthatthedocumentswerepublishedin.Thenumerator(actualcitations)isthesumofthe
citationcountsofthedocumentsthemselves.Divisionofthesumsyieldsthenumbershown.Aratiogreaterthan1
indicatesthattheauthorscitationcountisbetterthanaverage.
Categoryactual/expectedcitationsAnaggregateratio:thedenominator(expectedcitations)isthesumofthe
expectedcitationsofallcategoriesofjournalsthatthedocumentswerepublishedin.Thenumerator(actualcitations)
isthesumofthecitationcountsofthedocuments.Divisionofthesesumsyieldsthenumbershown.
Highestnumberofcitations.Thisisforaparticulararticleandisthenumberoftimesthatarticlehasbeencitedsince
publication.
ResearchGateScore.RGscoreiscalculatedbasedoncontributionstoReearchGate,theinteractionsandcommentsof
peerresearchers.
HighestAltmetricScore.Altmetricscoreisbasedontheamountofonlineattentionanarticlehasreceived.
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RESEARCHIMPACTSUMMARY
Totalcareerpublications 193
Publicationyears 1990-2013
h-index 30
Averagecitationsperpaper 21.54
Journalactual/expectedcitations(Incites) 1.03
Categoryactual/expectedcitations(Incites) .99
Totalcitations 4232
Highestnumberofcitations 548
RGScore 20.75
HighestAltmetricScore 642
Researcher level altmetric score
Article level altmetric score
Definitions of altmetrics scores
The Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Robin Featherstone, MLIS@[email protected]
Slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/featherr