1. What are they good for?
How publishers and librarians
can help researchers
Paul Groth (@pgroth)
VU University Amsterdam
http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth

2. “It took approximately a generation (20
years) for bibliographic citation analysis to
achieve acceptability as a measure of
academic impact."
(Vaughan and Shaw,
2003)

3. What altmetrics are not good at

4. (Wouters & Costas, 2012)

5. “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)

6. The Research is Happening
http://jasonpriem.org/self-archived/5uni-poster.png
(Birkholtz et al. 2013)
(Fausto et al 2012)
http://ploscollections.org/altmetrics
http://asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Piwowar.html

7. WHY LOOK AT ALTMETRICS
NOW?

8. Steve

10. Stories!
(Priem et al. 2012)

15. Support reuse of content

16. Surface statistics

17. You have high quality measures

18. Conclusion
• Altmetrics is still developing
– But useful today
• Your content is embedded in a network of
content
– Show the impact of your researchers content
through associated content
• Help authors tell their stories