Introducing Scopus’ Article-Level Metrics. From the Nov. 12, 2015 webinar Article, author and journal metrics: what librarians need to know.

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Introducing Scopus’ Article-Level Metrics
Mike Taylor
mi.taylor@elsevier.com
@herrison
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8534-5985
Library Connect Webinar:
Article, author and journal metrics: what librarians need to know
12 November 2015

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Contents
• Context for article-level metrics – what are altmetrics?
• 2014 in Article-Level Metrics
• Introducing Scopus’ Article-Level Metrics
- Citation
- Scholarly Activity
- Scholarly Commentary
- Mass Media
- Social Activity
- Future plans
• Differences between disciplines
• Altmetric conferences

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2014 in Article-Level Metrics (2.4M publications)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Pinterest (Active papers = 0, Total = 0)
Linkedin (Active papers = 9, Total = 10)
QA (Active papers = 108, Total = 117)
policy (Active papers = 684, Total = 977)
Publons (Active papers = 740, Total = 1904)
Pubpeer (Active papers = 1343, Total = 4447)
Video (Active papers = 2040, Total = 2710)
Weibo (Active papers = 3687, Total = 12701)
Reddit (Active papers = 5114, Total = 7391)
Wikipedia (Active papers = 5412, Total = 7622)
F1000 Prime (Active papers = 6232, Total = 7411)
Google+ (Active papers = 18171, Total = 43492)
Citeulike (Active papers = 26279, Total = 40200)
News (Active papers = 37541, Total = 178910)
Blogs (Active papers = 37700, Total = 73129)
Facebook (Active papers = 79089, Total = 300174)
Mendeley Groups (Active papers = 244089, Total = 378206)
Twitter (Active papers = 434041, Total = 3231833)
Citation (Active papers = 858009, Total = 2614670)
Mendeley (Active papers = 1380616, Total = 9373597)
2 or more (n)
1 only (n)
0 / zero (n)
Taylor, Michael (2015): Engineers Don't Blog and Other
Stories (why Scopus uses subject area benchmarking).
figshare.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1568135

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How to find Article-Level Metrics on Scopus

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Article-Level Metrics on Scopus

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Article-Level Metrics - Citation

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Article-Level
Metrics –
Scholarly
Activity

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Article-Level
Metrics –
Scholarly
Commentary

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Article-Level
Metrics – Mass
Media

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Article-Level Metrics – Social Activity

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Discipline differences: citation (l) vs scholarly activity (r)
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Engineering
Mathematics
Arts and Humanities
Physics and Astronomy
Materials Science
Energy
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Social Sciences
Computer Science
Nursing
Veterinary
Decision Sciences
Medicine
Pharmacology, Toxicology and…
Business, Management and…
Economics, Econometrics and…
Health Professions
Dentistry
Chemistry
Environmental Science
General journals (eg, Nature,…
Agricultural and Biological…
Chemical Engineering
Immunology and Microbiology
Biochemistry, Genetics and…
Psychology
Neuroscience
2 or
more
(%)0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Arts and Humanities (N = 104461)
Social Sciences (N = 189083)
Business, Management and…
Economics, Econometrics and…
Mathematics (N = 147434)
Engineering (N = 438717)
Veterinary (N = 21584)
Nursing (N = 48383)
Dentistry (N = 14035)
Decision Sciences (N = 21545)
Health Professions (N = 31675)
Computer Science (N = 44086)
General journals (eg, Nature,…
Medicine (N = 779828)
Psychology (N = 60885)
Earth and Planetary Sciences (N…
Agricultural and Biological…
Pharmacology, Toxicology and…
Energy (N = 72737)
Physics and Astronomy (N =…
Environmental Science (N =…
Materials Science (N = 226507)
Immunology and Microbiology (N…
Biochemistry, Genetics and…
Neuroscience (N = 69249)
Chemical Engineering (N = 54126)
Chemistry (N = 128555)
2 or
more
(%)

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Altmetric conferences
• Five years since the term “altmetrics” was coined
• 2:AM Amsterdam www.altmetricsconference.com
• http://www.altmetricsconference.com/schedule/ - All videoed and put on
the schedule page. Kristi Holmes – particularly working watching
(Altmetrics in the Library session)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzpkWNIT48Lu2y6Qb3iG7g
• Future events in the US and Europe?

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Article-Level Metrics – The future
• Views and usage
• Research data metrics
• NISO standards
• Zotero
• Academic research, e.g., http://elsevier.kdu.insight-centre.org
Thank you!