overview of the altmetrics landscape
DESCRIPTION
Altmetrics attempts to provide timely measures of an impact through the use of metrics from HTML views and downloads of scholarly articles, blog posts, tweets, bookmarks, etc. Publishers of scientific research have enabled altmetrics on their articles, open source applications are available for platforms to display altmetrics on scientific research and subscription models have been created to measure the use that research articles receive online. This presentation reviews some of the current models for providing altmetrics along with information on a selection the providers that have made altmetrics available for general use.TRANSCRIPT
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Article-Level Metrics
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Overview of the Altmetrics Landscape
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Richard Cave, I.T. Director
Charleston Conference November 9, 2012
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Organizations are already collecting altmetrics
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ScienceCard
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and soon…
Publishers are already displaying Article-Level metrics
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Article-Level Metrics or altmetrics? What are we talking about?
We’re talking about both
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Article-Level Metrics or altmetrics? What are we talking about?
Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a comprehensive and multi-dimensional suite of transparent and established metrics at the article levelhttp://article-level-metrics.plos.org/alm-info/
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Article-Level Metrics or altmetrics? What are we talking about?
Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarshipAltmetrics Manifesto - http://altmetrics.org/about/
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Altmetrics data is aggregated from many sources
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Altmetrics sources can be categorized
UsageHTML views, PDF/XML downloads (various sources – journal, PubMed Central, FigShare, Dryad, etc.)
CapturesCiteULike bookmarks, Mendeley readers/groups, Delicio.us
MentionsBlog posts, news stories, Wikipedia articles, comments, reviews
Social MediaTweets, Google+, Facebook likes, shares, ratings
CitationsWeb of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Pubmed Central, Microsoft Academic Search
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Relevant to the body of knowledge
Available in machine-readable form (API)
Immune to gaming
Free to redistribute (CC-0)
Ideal altmetrics source should provide data that is
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Altmetrics business models
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non-profit publisherusage stats provided by publisher
for profit
service provider
coverage of all journals
coverage of books, datasets, etc.
value-added services
non-profit
for profit
Altmetric
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Free YesEmbeddable JavaScript
No
API YesOpen Source Yes – Ruby on RailsAdded Benefit Usage stats from journal and PubMed Central
PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM)
• The PLOS Article-Level Metrics project started in 2009
• Tracks usage, citations and social web activity for all PLOS articles
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PLOS ALM application
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ALMs on PLOS articles
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PLOS Reporting and Visualization prototype
Data provided by
• PLOS Search API• PLOS ALM API
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• http://impactstory.org/ (recently changed name from Total-Impact)
• Non-profit organization• Source code: https
://github.com/total-impact
Free Yes
Embeddable JavaScript
Yes
API Yes
Open Source Yes - Python
Added Benefit Sources include datasets, code repositories
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http://altmetric.comStart-up, launched December 2010Platform as a Service (PAAS)Altmetric is supported by Digital Science, a Macmillan company
Free Yes - for individuals (non-commercial use)No – PAAS for publishers
Embeddable JavaScript
Yes
API Yes
Open Source No
Added Benefit PAAS service
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on Nature Scientific Reports
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http://www.plumanalytics.com/Join their announcement list!
In beta at• University of Pittsburgh• Smithsonian
Free No – PAAS for librarians & universities
Embeddable JavaScript
?
API ?
Open Source No
Added Benefit PAAS, value-added services
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What are they building?• Next generation impact analysis metrics for
scholarly research• Aggregating artifact and author level metrics into a
research reputation graph• Clicks, views, tweets, likes, links, tags, favorites,
Google+, etc. will be captured and correlated
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Plum Impact Reports
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ScienceCard
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• Created by Martin Fenner in 2010 as part of the PLOS/Mendeley Binary Battle
• Based on PLOS ALM application• Creates a baseball card metaphor for researchers
Free Yes
Embeddable JavaScript
No
API Yes
Open Source Yes – Ruby on Rails
Added Benefit Based on researcher profiles
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ScienceCard for Martin Fenner
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ReaderMeter
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• Created by Dario Taraborelli in 2010 to estimate the impact of a research article
• Based on the article’s usage at Mendeley • ReaderMeter adapts two popular impact metrics
for authors and redefines these metrics by using bookmarks instead of citations
Free Yes
Embeddable JavaScript
No
API No
Open Source No
Added Benefit Based on researcher profiles
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ReaderMeter for Duncan Watts
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CitedIn
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• Combination of a searchable database and webservice for citations citations in the literature, biomedical databases, blogs, books and wiki's
• Created by Andra Waagmeester, Bioinformatics of Maastricht University
Free Yes
Embeddable JavaScript
No
API No
Open Source Yes - PHP
Added Benefit Based on researcher profiles
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CitedIn
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Next step for altmetrics community
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Provide context to the numbers
Provide an awesome use case
Create best-practices for collecting, aggregating, normalizing and displaying altmetrics data
Create strategies to combat gaming
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Getting started as a librarian
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Collect and track altmetrics • For research articles published at your university• For research of interest• Display altmetrics on author bios
Tell publishers that you want Article-Level Metrics for every published research article
Tell altmetrics sources that the data should be CC-0
Join the #altmetrics and altmetrics Google Group discussions
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Getting started as a publisher
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Collect and display altmetrics for the articles you publish
Work with an altmetrics service provider or install an Open Source altmetrics application
• Take into account cost, technical expertise, but also who owns the data
Join the #altmetrics and altmetrics Google Group discussions
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Questions?
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PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM)Website: article-level-metrics.plos.orgExample: ALMs for journal.pbio.0000008Article: Genetically Modified Corn - Environmental Benefits and Risks
ImpactStoryWebsite: ImpactStoryExample: ImpactStory CollectionExample article: The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterflyJavascript Example (cut/paste into HTML):
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://impactstory.org/static/js/total-impact-item.js"></script>
<span id="ti-id">doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000355</span>
<div id="ti-data"><!--ImpactStory puts data here--></div>
Examples from Presentation
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AltmetricWebsite: AltmetricExample: http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=api.altmetric.com&citation_id=571540
Javascript Example (cut/paste into HTML):
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js'></script>
<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='medium-donut' data-badge-details='right' data-doi='10.1038/nature.2012.9872'></div>
ScienceCardWebsite: ScienceCardExample: ScienceCard for Martin Fenner
Examples from Presentation
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ReaderMeterWebsite: ReaderMeterExample: http://readermeter.org/Watts.Duncan_J
CitedInWebsite: CitedInExample: CitedIn Example (click on Waagmeester)
Examples from Presentation
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ALM DataPLOS ALM APIhttp://api.plos.org/
PLOS ALM Data dumphttp://article-level-metrics.plos.org/plos-alm-data/
ALM Application - Open SourcePLOS ALM Application – Ruby on Railshttps://github.com/articlemetrics/alm
Data analysis and visualizationhttps://github.com/articlemetrics/plosOpenR
PLOS ALM information