The document discusses altmetrics and how they can be used to measure the impact of research in new ways. It provides an overview of what altmetrics are, who provides them, what types of research outputs they can track, and how different groups can use altmetrics data. It also addresses some concerns about gaming altmetrics and misinterpreting the data, emphasizing that altmetrics are meant to complement, not replace, traditional metrics.

1. Andy Tattersall
@andy_tattersall

2. Talk overview
What are Altmetrics
Who is behind Altmetrics
How you can get involved with
using them

3. Do you use any of these?

4. And these?

5. Do you recognise these?

6. http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/19/peer-review-research-impact-altmetrics

7. Academia is changing forever
MOOCs
Open Access
Impact
Big Data
Altmetrics

8. The dissemination and communication
of research is changing
Presentations and seminars
Funding and ethics applications
Academic books
Journal articles and posters
Term papers and essays
Meetings and conferences
Correspondence
Open access
Supplementary data
Online reference managers
Press
Post-publication peer-review
Social media
Blogs

9. Traditional metrics struggle to
reflect this
- Slow to accrue
- Focus mostly on published articles
Published
June 2014:
Starting to impact the behaviour of academics

10. Development of altmetrics
(alternative indicators)
● to complement, not replace traditional metrics
● help people understand how research is being received and used,
and by who
● not intended as an indicator of quality
● can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal
impact’
● give credit for research outputs other than articles

11. So, what are they?

12. And who provides them?

13. What Altmetrics look at

14. Policy documents
● AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies
● European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
● Food and Agriculture Organization
● GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis
● Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
● International Monetary Fund (IMF)
● Mental Health Foundation (UK) - NEW
● NICE Evidence
● UNESCO
● World Health Organization (WHO)
More being added each week…

15. Digging in to the data

16. Demographics
Twitter data from
bio’s
Mendeley data based
on who has saved
the article to their
library - anonymised

17. The Altmetric score and donut
● developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received
● not an indicator of quality of the research!
● useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once

18. Context

19. Publisher uses

20. And funders...

21. Librarian access
● Free Altmetric Explorer accounts
● Search for data on any article, from any publisher
● Share with researchers or admins

22. Altmetric for Institutions

23. Explore your institution

24. Reporting
- save search filters
- set up automated email alerts
- export to excel, or reports on individual articles
- API output
- set up direct links into other systems

25. Who can use the data?

26. Institutional repositories
- free donut badge embeds
- just 2 lines of code: api.altmetric.com
- helps encourage deposits
- collates attention from all versions
info@altmetric.com

27. Researchers
altmetric.it

28. Details pages alerts

30. Impact Story

31. Kudos

33. Metrics
Categories
USAGE
(clicks, downloads, views, library
holdings, video plays)
CAPTURES
(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,
readers, watchers)
MENTIONS
(blog posts, comments, reviews,
Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL MEDIA
(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
CITATIONS
(PubMed Central, Scopus, patents)

34. Concerns about gaming and
misinterpretation
● All of Altmetric.com’s data is auditable
● They don’t show things like Facebook likes
● Systems in place to flag up suspect activity

37. The research process
Have an
idea
Search for
research
Filter and
review the
research
Publish and
disseminate
the research
Measure
and
discuss the
research

38. The research process and you
Have an
idea
Search for
research
Filter and
review the
research
Publish and
disseminate
the research
Measure
and
discuss the
research
LIS Professionals host,
catalogue and search
published research
LIS Professionals carry out
systematic and literature
reviews from search results
LIS Professionals
experts in publishing
and communication.
OA, Social Media,
blogging
LIS Professionals
experts in
measurement,
bibliometrics,
work in neutral role

39. Appraising
Impartial
Flexible
Helpful
Networked
Centrally based
Where the LIS professional fits in

40. ''All mankind is divided into three classes: Those
that are immovable, those that are movable, and
those that move''.
Benjamin Franklin

41. Getting academics to the waterhole
Images CC BY Whatleydude http://bit.ly/1wPc0my Kyknoord http://bit.ly/1wgTLZ8

42. #Understand
Image CC BY Glen Edelson
http://bit.ly/1o3tFb8
● Their way of working -
long periods doing the same thing
● Their concerns
Pressure to publish research
● Their fears
May not be used to Social Media or
technology for that matter
● How busy they are
● What they can get out of
Altmetrics
and what you can do to help them

43. #Demystify
Image CC BY Sarah
http://bit.ly/ZyiXxw
● Explain that Altmetrics are not
about Justin Bieber’s Tweets to
his Beliebers
● That using tools like Altmetrics,
Mendeley, Twitter and ImpactStory
will show them where their research
is reaching globally
● Help build case studies to
show what is out there
● Show junior researchers and
students that their research and
profile will benefit

44. #Train
Image CC BY Sarah
http://bit.ly/ZyiXxw
Image CC BY Michael Young
http://bit.ly/Zyk2Wh
● Bite size sessions
● Workshops
● Video tutorials
● Webinars
● Hangouts

45. #Champion
● Look to see who on your
campus uses technology
and social media
● Take them for a coffee
● Get them to present a
session on how they use it
Image CC BY edwin.11
http://bit.ly/1ufH2kP

46. #Network
● Seek out natural
allies
Impact and research
support, open access
advocates,
MOOCsters,
library and information
professionals,
technicians,
learning technologists,
communications and
marketing
Image CC BY Bruno Girin
http://bit.ly/1zeQnlc

47. #Practice

48. New era for peer review?

49. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/ (Last Accessed 14/10/2014)

51. https://theconversation.com/profiles/tom-stafford-91781/articles

53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

56. Thank you
@andy_tattersall
Thanks to @catherinelucy at Altmetric.com for
use of slides 8-34.