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Stephan Buettgen Director Analytic Product Sales Bibliometrie 2014 in Regensburg, September 25th, 2014 @StephanBuettgen or [email protected]
ALLmetrics. Not Altmetrics.
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History
• 2012 • Founded Plum Analytics – Andrea Michalek/Mike Buschman • University of Pittsburgh – first customer • 2013 • Launched PlumX product • Customers include universities, corporations, publishers • 2014 • EBSCO acquired Plum in January • Customers now include funders - Autism Speaks • Poised for growth as altmetrics come of age
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Current state of
Scholarly Measure 3
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Citation Metrics are lagging indicators
• Scopus = 2 • Web of Science = 0 • Google Scholar = 8 • PubMed = 1
Photo credit: A. Wayne Vogl and Nicholas D. Pyenson / Smithsonian Institution.
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Changing the focus
COUNTER how much your university uses the collection
Article-level metrics and
PlumX
how much the world uses your research
on metrics
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Researchers have Moved Online
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Scholarly Data Exhaust
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“Same” Article, Different Places
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Beyond the Journal Article… • Articles • Blog posts • Book chapters • Books • Cases • Clinical Trials • Conference Papers • Data Sets • Figures • Grants • Interviews
• Letters • Media • Patents • Posters • Presentations • Reports • Source Code • Theses /
Dissertations • Videos • Web Pages
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Sample of Metrics Sources
• Amazon • Bit.ly • CrossRef • Delicious • Dryad • dSpace • ePrints • Facebook • Figshare • Github
• Google+ • Medwave • Mendeley • Microsoft
Academic Search • PLOS • PubMed • Reddit • Research
Blogging • Scopus
• SlideShare • SourceForge • Stack Overflow • Twitter • USPTO • Vimeo • Wikipedia • Worldcat • YouTube
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Metrics Categories
USAGE (clicks, downloads, views,
library holdings, video plays)
CAPTURES (bookmarks, code forks, favorites,
readers, watchers)
MENTIONS (blog posts, comments, reviews,
Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL MEDIA (+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
CITATIONS (PubMed Central, Scopus,
patents)
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• New data to compete for funds • Showcase full breadth of impact • Create benchmarks
Performing Research
• Evaluate ROI • Fast track for scientific feedback & success • New data to make funding decisions
Funding Research
• Impact before first citations • Add value to IRs and eJournals • Recruit/retain “best” authors
Publishing Research
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Next Generation Technology
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Crawl Scrape API Bulk Load
Crawl Scrape
API Bulk Load
Stream Plum
Datastore
Real Time
Metrics
Big Data Artifacts Groups People } Our Algorithms:
• Ranking • Analytics • IDR
PlumX Products: • Directories • Dashboards • Widgets • Data API • And more
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- Samples
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Author Dashboard
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Assess and Compare Impact
19 Artifact / Article Level Metrics
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Author Dashboard
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Reporting: Metrics and Publication Totals by Publication Year
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Reporting: Social Media Metrics by Publication Type
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Reporting: Top Researchers
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Metrics Dashboards
25 Visualizing Impact: Widgets Plum Print Group Widget Author Widget
Thank you