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Altmetrics: the movement, the tools, and the implications
The document discusses the concept of altmetrics, which are alternative metrics for evaluating academic work based on social media and online engagement, as opposed to traditional measures like citations and impact factors. It highlights the shift toward recognizing various scholarly contributions and introduces tools for measuring these new forms of impact, such as Impactstory and PlumX. The text concludes with a debate on the value of altmetrics, including their potential for promoting academic work and the concerns about their reliability and recognition in the scholarly community.
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- 1. Altmetrics: the movement,the tools, and the implications Andrea Horne Denton, MILS Kimberley R. Barker, MLIS
- 2. Defining altmetrics •J.Priem (@jasonpriem), I like the term #articlelevelmetrics, but it fails to imply *diversity* of measures. Lately, I'm liking #altmetrics., 4:28 AM - 29 Sep 10, Tweet •“…the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.” –http://altmetrics.org/about/
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- 4. Why should youcare? Br J Sports Med doi:10.1136/bjsports-2013-092417
- 5. Before altmetrics… •Traditionalproducts and measures of academic success –Publications –Conference presentations/posters –Committee work –Number of times your work was cited –Impact Factor and journal rank –H-index
- 6. Altmetrics… Measures Traditional Research Products Traditional -Article -Chapter -Books Times Cited Impact Factor + Rank H-index
- 7. Altmetrics… Measures Traditional New Research Products Traditional -Article -Chapter -Book Times Cited Impact Factor + Rank H-index Page Views Downloads
- 8. Altmetrics… Measures Traditional New Research Products Traditional -Article -Chapter Impact Factor Page Views New -Datasets -Blog post -Others NONE Downloads
- 9. What other additionalscholarly contributions can you think of? •Blogs •Invited Interviews •Twitter •Facebook •Reddit
- 10. Why the shift? •Academic work online –Articles - measured by page views, downloads, etc? –Academic work disseminated online, e.g. Figshare, SlideShare, etc. •Academic engagement on social platforms –i.e., serious discussion taking place on Twitter & Facebook In a nutshell, academics are engaging in non-traditional arenas and rightfully want credit for that engagement.
- 11. Why the shift? •Additional scholarly contributions: –Data sets –Patents –Software –Copyrights NSF “Publications” broadened to “Products of Research” As of Jan 2013 “citable and accessible including but not limited to publications, data sets, software, patents, and copyrights."
- 12. How does “altmeasuring”work? •Altmetrics are measured, just as are more traditional metrics, such as published articles •New products require new measurements
- 13. Examples of newmeasurements •Downloads and page views •Track-backs •Tweets and retweets •Links from review services (e.g. Facultyof1000) •Sharing, social bookmarking
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- 15. Old-ish tools •GoogleAnalytics •Bit.ly •Spring Metrics (websites)
- 16. Emerging Tools •ImpactStory •Altmetric.com •PlumX
- 17. ImpactStory •Your impactprofile on the web: we reveal the diverse impacts of your articles, datasets, software, and more •Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar •Free
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- 21. Altmetric.com •London-based start-up •Funding from Digital Science (LabGuru, FigShare)
- 22. Altmetric’s widget (“donut”) •Used by publishers/journals •Nature Publishing, Cell Press •Royal Society of Chemistry as of Sept 2013 •BMJ specialty journals as of Oct 2013 •Springer •Etc •Etc
- 23. Altmetric Explorer •Subscriptionproduct – monitor, search and measure conversations about your publications and those of your competitors £45 a month
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- 30. Altmetric Bookmarklet •Free •Reading a paper and want to find out its Altmetric details? Install the bookmarklet in your browser •When viewing the paper, “Altmetric it”
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- 33. Plum Analytics •PlumXanalysis tool •Bought by EBSCO, a provider of library subscription databases and journals
- 34. Plum Analytics •PlumMetrics –Usage (downloads, views, ILL) –Captures (favorites, bookmarks) –Mentions (blog posts, news, Wikipedia) –Social media (tweets, likes) –Citations (PubMed, Scopus, patents)
- 35. PlumX: the basics •Analysis tool aimed at helping institutions understand influence of researchers’ work through altmetrics •Compiles institutional repository data with other data sources •Works with customers to add initial data in bulk- individuals then claim info (can use ORCID ID) •Pitt PlumX “dashboard” https://plu.mx/pitt/g/ •Michael Pinsky, MD https://plu.mx/u/mpinsky
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- 41. The Debate… •Impactvs. attention •David C.’s Improbable Science… “Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares” http://www.dcscience.net/?p=6369 •Popular topics get higher counts, quickly, but then fade? How does this reflect quality?
- 42. The Debate… •Doessocial media help promote good science? Or not? (e.g. anti-vaccine)
- 43. Positives & Negatives •Positives –Speed of feedback –More complete picture of scholarly activities •Negatives –Not commonly recognized by scholars/administrators –Can be “gamed”
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- 45. If you’re interested… •Some next steps: –Investigate use of measurement tools –Set up social media profiles and lurk –Experiment with low-commitment activities
- 46. See our LibGuidefor further resources http://guides.hsl.virginia.edu/hsl-altmetrics