how mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impact william gunn, ph.d. head of academic...
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How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impactWilliam Gunn, Ph.D.Head of Academic OutreachMendeley
@mrgunnhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-2054
...and aggregates research
data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts research data…
Install Mendeley Desktop
Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
Home Work Mobile
Cloud Library
Shared Folder
Read papers + keep track of notes
470M documents
Taking some misery out of writing
Mendeley Research Catalog
Mendeley Research Catalog
New forms of discovery
• Mendeley Suggest– personalized recommendations based
on reading history• related articles
– relatedness based on document similarity
• recommender frameworks– implement recommendations as a
service• third-party recommender services
– serve niche audiences
Information Extraction
We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud
http://code-research.eu/
Connecting researchers
Search
ReadAnnotateOrganize
Write
Import
Data we collect
• Metadata about the paper–title, author, tags, annotations, reads, shares, groups
• Metadata about the researcher–discipline, educational status, country, papers they’ve authored, presentations, expertise
2.7M researchers
Defining readership
• Each document addition is a “read”
• stamped with metadata describing the context of the read event
• a read is like a citation, but faster and captures more
research impacts more than authors
Citations are slow
Mendeley is fast
Readership vs. citations
• it comes with a payload of metadata
• it accrues faster• it illuminates previously hidden impact
http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1
altmetrics show broader impact
http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.04
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Lin_Fenner.html
altmetrics show broader impact
Issues To Be Addressed
• Identity• Privacy• Attribution• Gaming• Filtration
standards/best practice
What would people build if they could get the data?
• Impact Story – get credit for all your work
• PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers
• Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries (EBSCO)
• Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (Digital Science)
