Paul Groth (@pgroth)Web & Media GroupVU University Amsterdamhttp://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth

Telling your research story with (alt)metrics

NIH Data Book – (http://report.nih.gov/ndb/index.aspx) Data provided by the Division of Information Services, Reporting Branch

Research Project Grants Applications, awards, and success rates

Metrics: Do metrics matter?Nature 2010http://doi.org/10.1038/465860a

"Outside letters basically trump everything," says Robert Simoni, chairman of the biology department at Stanford University in California.

http://blog.peerj.com/post/65345738206/changing-the-currency-of-science-to-solve-our-greatest

“Imagine how the academic appointment process might change if search and review committees had access—within an appropriately tagged or linked online CV, for example, or via the ORCID system—to information about the specific contributions made by a candidate to each of his/her works, including contributions that might not otherwise have qualified for ‘authorship’ status?”

Point of view: Faculty appointments and the record of scholarshipAmy Brandhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00452

Point of view: Faculty appointments and the record of scholarshipAmy Brandhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00452

Slide 3: http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/files/2013/10/Brand.pptx

Opportunities• Individuals and institutions need better

tools for curating and networking their own record of scholarship

• Institutions need more information about scholarly contribution

• ALMs that reliably differentiate sources of input (general; academic; expert; etc.) would be more useful”

ENTER ALTMETRICS

Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments.

http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048753

“It took approximately a generation (20 years) for bibliographic citation analysis to achieve acceptability as a measure of academic impact."

(Vaughan and Shaw, 2003)

What altmetrics are not good at

(Wouters & Costas, 2012)

“The main problem is that none of the new tools we reviewed meet crucial requirements for data quality and indicator construction. This prevents them from currently being usable in the context of research evaluation and assessment.”

(Wouters & Costas, 2012)

http://www.slideshare.net/paulwouters1/issi2013-wg-pw

The Research is Happening

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http://ploscollections.org/altmetricshttp://asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Piwowar.html

http://www.cwts.nl/pdf/CWTS-WP-2013-003.pdf

Why now?

Figure 1. Terms and definitions.

Allen HG, Stanton TR, Di Pietro F, Moseley GL (2013) Social Media Release Increases Dissemination of Original Articles in the Clinical Pain Sciences. PLoS ONE 8(7): e68914. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068914http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068914

SOURCES

http://blog.peerj.com/post/65345738206/changing-the-currency-of-science-to-solve-our-greatest

Largest List of Metrics Sources• Amazon• Bit.ly• CrossRef• Delicious• Dryad• dSpace• ePrints• Facebook• Figshare• Github

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• 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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THE FUTURE – RICHER VIEWS OF IMPACT

• Cameron Neylon - ALM Workshop 2013 Summary

• http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/files/2013/10/Neylon.pptx

Not very high views

Not an obvious outlier...

...but interesting interactions...

...driven by this person...

...who I can talk to.

See http://bit.ly/NJOyUn for the whole conversation

This. Is Impact.

SUPPORT FOR YOUR STORY

Three Points

1) The story you want to convey2) Metrics as evidence3) Transparency is central

Conclusion

• Altmetrics is still developing– But useful today

• Your content is embedded in a network of content– Show the impact of your content

through associated content

• Tell a story using your network

Thanks

Collaborators: Peter van den Besselaar, Julie Birkholz, Frank van Harmelen, Shenghui Wang, Rinke Hoekstra, Thomas Gurney, Mike Taylor, Anita de Waard, Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli, Cameron Neylon