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Cathy Holland - Through the lens of Dimensions: Interoperability, visibility, credibility
The document discusses the concepts of interoperability, visibility, and credibility in the context of the Dimensions networked research knowledge system. It highlights the ability of this system to connect various research data elements and emphasizes the importance of community-driven metrics. The presentation also showcases how Dimensions enhances the visibility and credibility of SCIELO published content through indexing and linking to related research outputs.
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- 1. Cathy Holland Digital Science September28, 2018 SciELO Conference Through the lens of Dimensions - Interoperability, visibility, credibility
- 2. Agenda ● Definitions ○ Arewe on the same page? ● The power of interoperability ● Visibility and the indexing of all titles ● Credibility of metrics ● The end
- 3. Definitions ● Interoperability ○ Theability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use of information ○ A capacidade de sistemas de computador ou software para trocar e fazer uso de informações ○ La capacidad de los sistemas informáticos o software para intercambiar y hacer uso de la información
- 4. Definitions ● Visibility ○ Thestate of being able to see or be seen or the degree to which something has attracted general attention; prominence ○ O estado de ser capaz de ver ou ser visto ou o grau em que algo atraiu a atenção geral; proeminência ○ El estado de poder ver o ser visto o el grado en que algo ha atraído la atención general; prominencia
- 5. Definitions ● Credibility ○ Thequality of being trusted and believed in ○ A qualidade de ser confiável e acreditado em ○ La calidad de ser confiable y creer en
- 6. The Lens ofDimensions
- 7. What is Dimensions?A Networked Research Knowledge System • Connects data across the different elements of research (for discovery and analysis) • Built in collaboration with 100+ research organization development partners worldwide • Basic publications discovery version free for individual researchers • Full data versions licensed to institutions, publishers, funders and corporate customers • Features a variety of article-level metrics such as: ○ Altmetrics, total number of of citations, recent citations, FCR, RCR
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- 10. Interoperability 4.1m grants $1.3 trillion in funding 37m patents 368k Policy papers 9m Altmetric data points 139Klinks 480k Clinical trials 350K links 320M links 873M links 97m Publications improved metadata of 50m
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- 18. Visibility ALL SciELO content hasbeen indexed in Dimensions.
- 19. Visibility Filter by sourcetitle Content automatically linked to related grants, patents clinical trials, policy docs, citations and metrics
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- 21. We do notwant to impose metrics ... … metrics should be developed by the community … at the discipline, national or institutional level. Example of a partner metric: Relative Citation Ration (RCR) … please join the efforts for more and / or better metrics! Dimensions and metrics
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- 27. What does this interoperabletool show us about SciELO?
- 28. Publications vs. CitationRate - SciELO Journals
- 29. Patent References Linkedto SciELO Journal Articles
- 30. Policy References Linkedto SciELO Journal Articles
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Make sure to introduce yourself
- #3 Quick snapshot of the agenda
- #4 First I want to touch quickly on definitions - Often in the space we are not all speaking the same language. One of these definition might mean something slightly different to a researcher or publisher or they may mean different things depending on your research area. Math or Religious Studies can have very different view on what it i I highlight these to note that if we are to achieve the goals the ecosystem is interest in, we need to be sure we are all talking about the same definitions. I say this as I have frequently seen two people think they are talking about the same thing when in reality they are not. Happens all the time in my marriage ;)
- #5 Visibility Definitions
- #6 Credibility
- #7 As we are looking at these 3 attributes from the lens of Dimensions, First we need to know more about Dimensions as it was just launched in January this year.
- #8 Dimensions is a Networked Knowledge Research System. Not only do we collect citation data, we also we also link the citation data to other data points so that we get the “full research story”. What makes it differnet? The indexing of grants, content, patents etc is based on full text so we can really get a full understanding of the piece of work and thus categorize the objects and get better information to link them to build a full picture.. Additionally Dimensions indexes all articles.
- #9 Let’s talk a little bit about interoperability
- #10 Our data by definition is interoperable - we have pulled in a huge amount of data from other places in order to connect it and make it more useful We can also connect this data with other data sets Powerful API so you can extract data sets and further analyze Work with other institutional identifiers Pull in new taxonomies so organizations can analyze their own space
- #11 Just a quick snapshot of the linkages here and some numbers on the data.
- #12 Quick snapshot of the interface itself.
- #13 Landing page for an article
- #14 We have started with other Digital Science tools that many organizations already use to start our journey on interoperability.
- #15 If you drill down further, you have links to the actual citations, policy, or patent reference.
- #16 As example of interoperability beyond our own tools, we are integrated with ORCID.
- #18 Built for researchers to discover content - with full text index you can find even more content related to your subject area.
- #19 All SciELO content indexed Dimensions - everyone can find SciELO articles in the platform. Due to the full text index, natural language processing etc, we can get more accurate with a subject area. This will mean that SciELO content has a higher chance of being Also, all content in Dimensions is picking up citation data.
- #20 In the interface you can filter further by source title to see what is going on with your exact content. You can also see the linkages if you drill down.
- #21 Moving onto Credibility
- #22 First I want to say something on Metrics and how we view them. I considered this as we have talked a lot about metrics at this conference. I think this slide says it all We don’t want to impose metrics Metrics should be developed by the community At the discipline, national, or institutional level. We even have partnered with organizations like the NIH to develop metrics
- #23 Credibility can be very subjective - however we have a few things that make us credible. First I want to touch on the fact that we just signed onto DORA. In case you have not heard of DORA it is an initiative within the community to promote and develop best practice in the assessment of research. If you have not read the declaration I encourage you to do so. Explain what this means and why it is important.
- #24 Additionally we are very transparent about how we are accomplishing this and have put out a guide called the Dimensions Data Approach. It is located on Figshare so please do feel free to look it up.
- #25 Dimensions comes out a group of companies that already have good reputations in community. However what really means you have arrive is when those in the community start to use and evaluate your tools to give their perspective. One of the early adopter of Dimensions was the the University of Zurich. They show citation from several providers as a comparison point. You can see the numbers are similar.
- #26 We also have some third party evaluations. Some of these were a complete but positive surprise to us and others were more like interviews and discussions.
- #27 We also have some third party evaluations. Some of these were a complete but positive surprise to us and others were more like interviews and discussions.
- #28 Earlier - Working Group 4 on the performance of SciELO Journals
- #29 Citations - Chat from Dimensions - Relative to what is going on with publications - Citations keep going up while publications are steady
- #32 This database is partially free so please do take a look at Dimensions.ai. Right now you do not even have to register.