what's your impactstory? - heather piwowar - opencon 2016

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Impactstory

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What’s your impactstory?

Sunday, November 13, 16

Is measuring good?


Is measuring good?

or bad?


Does measuring cheapen, lessen, oversimplify, and pervert?


Does measuring cheapen, lessen, oversimplify, and pervert?

Or does it uncover and empower?


both, of course.


The key:


The key:

measure what matters.


So. We want to move away from the journal impact factor.

It keeps us bound to journals, and traditional journals, and traditional audiences


What to move toward?


first: individual citations.


first: individual citations.

article-level.scholarly audience.

broad-based, not 3 reviewers.


Google Scholar!


BUT


so. second: wider audiences!


third: doing the right thing.


impactstory.org


3 steps:

sign up for google scholar and impactstory

talk with your peers and advisors about how to include in CVs and evaluations

spread the word!


three steps:

individual citations

individual altmetrics

what’s your #OAscore?


what's your impactstory? - heather piwowar - opencon 2016

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