no more waiting! tools that work today to reveal dataset use

Heather  Piwowar  @researchremix  cofounder,  ImpactStory.    Postdoc  at  NESCent.

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No more waiting!

Tools that work Todayto reveal dataset use

some photos NC, SA

We want to understand the impact of our datasets

Cite our DOIs!

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they still don’t discover citations to datasets

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Something that we data-people often forget:

IMPACT ISN’T JUST CITATIONS

Many types of engagement:

• views• saves• discussions• formal references• recommendations

Many engagement groups:

• researchers• teachers• students• policy makers• practitioners

altmetrics.

journal article citation formal reference from a scholar

journal article in-text link formal reference from a scholar

blog in-text link informal discussion from a scholar

tweet in-text link informal discussion from a scholar... or a teacher, student, policy maker, ...

Mendeley, Delicious bookmark saveby someone

GitHub star, IR like

recommendationby someone

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixscapes/4331070047

This allows us get to something

that’s hard to get with citations

CC-BY-NC by maniacyak on flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/maniacyak/3432589472

Impact flavour

How can we do this?

What is possible now?

Board: Cameron Neylon John Wilbanks

Open metrics, with context, for diverse products.!

How can you help?

a) Expose more metrics

http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.18

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/3131/utilization

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/3131/utilization

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/3131/utilization

b) Support more types of engagement with with datasets

Today: full pallet for articles

Tools to support all stages of engagementstill lacking for datasets.

#callToAction

c) Lobby+negotiate for open

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/2055471833

OPEN text mining of articlesOPEN data from reposOPEN metrics from aggregators

citations. and so much more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/722900022/

thank you!Jason Priem: cofounder of ImpactStory

Also: Todd Vision, Mike Whitlock, the open science community, and those who release their articles, datasets and photos openly.

blog.ImpactStory.orgteam@ImpactStory.org

@ImpactStory

ImpactStory.org