Altmetrics Overview

AN OVERVIEW OF USING SOCIAL MEDIATO MEASURE AND FILTER SCIENCEPaul Groth@pgrothhttp://www.few.vu.nl/~pgrothThanks to:Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli,Mike Thelwall, Peter van den Besselaar,the altmetrics community

OVERVIEW• Contextualizing Altmetrics• Defining Altmetrics• An example study• Current status• Going forward

What should I read?

What’s important?

How am I doing?

A KEY INGREDIENT•What should I read?•What’s important?•How am I doing? Measuring Impact

CURRENT METHODSScience Studies Methods•Interviews•Surveys•Observations•Bibliometrics•Webometrics

Filter Failure from jasonpriem

AND WHAT ABOUT THIS? Faculty of Sciences

Scientists do more than write papers….

These leave traces on the web

WE CAN MEASUREDownloadsWhere readers readData citationSocial network diffusionSlide reusePeer review contributionsYoutube views…

ALTMETRICSaltmetricsis the creation and study of new metrics based onthe Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.Summarized in:J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Alt-metrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26 October 2010.http://altmetrics.org/manifesto Faculty of Sciences

EXAMPLE: Studying Scientific Discourse on the Web using Bibliometrics: A Chemistry Blogging Case Study. Groth and Gurney, WebScience 2010 Faculty of Sciences

Number of Posts ...more immediate Difference in Age Between Post & Publication (Years)

origins of life/chemistry future of chemical fields water research atmospheric chemistry

CURRENT STATUS: ACADEMICVery good work on usage metricsWorkshop at Web Science 2011http://altmetrics.org/workshop2011/PloS ONE Collectionhttp://altmetrics.org/plosone/Paper collection:http://www.mendeley.com/groups/586171/altmetrics/ Faculty of Sciences

CURRENT STATUS: TOOLS –PLOS&MENDELEY BINARY BATTLE Faculty of Sciences

CURRENT STATUS: TOOLS Faculty of Sciences

CURRENT STATUS: TOOLS http://total-impact.org Faculty of Sciences

QUESTIONS• How do we know whether this measures true academicimpact?• What sorts of new filters are necessary?• What kind of impact are we measuring?• At what level of aggregation (if any) are these metricsuseful for?• Can we gain analysis by going for scale?• Can science maps help us overcome variance in ourdatasets?• How do we determine what population we are talkingabout?•…. Faculty of Sciences

CONCLUSION: WE ARE JUST STARTINGReminder:“It took approximately a generation (20 years) forbibliographic citation analysis to achieve acceptability as ameasure of academic impact." (Vaughan and Shaw, 2003). Faculty of Sciences

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