altmetrics for showing research impact

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@rmfeatherstonefeathers@ualberta.ca

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