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Maximising your communication impact – making altmetrics workss
This document provides an overview of alternative metrics and tools for tracking research impact and visibility. It discusses various altmetric data sources like PlumX, Impact Story and Altmetric.com that can track usage, captures and mentions of research articles. It also covers academic social networks like Mendeley, ResearchGate and Academia.edu that can help increase visibility. Open access and tools like Publish or Perish for analyzing Google Scholar data are also summarized. The document aims to help researchers improve their research visibility and understand their digital footprint through alternative metrics.
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- 1. “Maximising your Communication Impact– Making Altmetrics work for you” Ciaran Quinn Research Support Librarian Maynooth University
- 2. Topics • Improving yourResearch Visibility & tracking your impact • Alternative Metrics/ All Metrics ▫ PlumX (EBSCO) ▫ Impact Story (& Orcid) ▫ Altmetrics.com (ProQuest & Scopus) ▫ Google Scholar Metrics (Publish Or Perish) ▫ Open Access • Academic Social Networking ▫ Mendeley (Elsevier)(9 million) ▫ Research Gate (9 million academics but more active & more papers)(Berlin based, Investors + Microsoft) ▫ Academia.edu (34 million academics, San Francisco) ▫ Social Science Research Network (SSRN )(Elsevier)
- 3. Context ! 1.8 millionarticles published each year, in about 28,000 journals • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart- news/half-academic-studies-are-never-read- more-three-people-180950222/?no-ist
- 4. Citation Rates (based onWOS Data) • Dahlia Remler "12 percent of medicine articles are not cited, compared to about 82 percent (!) for the humanities. It’s 27 percent for natural sciences and 32 percent for social sciences (cite)“ • http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2014/04/h ow-few-papers-ever-get-cited-its-bad-but-not- that-bad/ • http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.5 250.pdf
- 5. Natures Top 100 (WOSData Oct 2014) • http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224 • Experimental Methods papers ▫ Rank: 1 Citations: 305,148 ▫ Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagent. ▫ Lowry, O. H., Rosebrough, N. J., Farr, A. L. & Randall, R. J. ▫ J. Biol. Chem. 193, 265–275 (1951). • Software & Databases • Foundational discoveries ▫ However many so well known not cited ! E.g.Einstein’s special theory of relativity ! • Time (Older papers !)
- 6. Improving your ResearchVisibility • Traditional: ▫ Publish in High Impact Journals ▫ Gold Open Access ▫ Check your Author Identity/Disambiguation ▫ Link Research Question/Title/Keywords Be findable ▫ Co Authors/Collaborate ▫ Advertise & Disseminate
- 7. Advertising & Disseminating Reachinga Wider Audience • University RIS System: Keep it updated ! ▫ http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/126217/publications • Open Access/Self Archive ▫ Institutional Repositories http://rian.ie/ (Irish) ▫ Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/ ▫ Subject Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/find.php Increase readership & citations • General Social Media ▫ LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook/Emails ▫ Include links to your works unique identifier in the main body of the post DOI, ArXiv ID, PubMed • Document Publishing ▫ Figshare (Data) , GitHub (Source Code) Slideshare (Presentations), Scribd (Publishing) ▫ PrePrints (arXiv, bioRxiv, FigShare) • Discussion Lists/Online Forum ▫ Do a lay summary of your work • Blogging: (Blogger, Wordpress) or Guest Blogging • Be Findable: Descriptive Title, Abstract, Keywords, ▫ Think of Humans & Machines looking for your work !
- 8. Can I track& understand my Digital Footprint/Social Reach ! • Usage (downloads, views) • Capturing (Saves, Bookmarks) • Mentions (Comments) • Social Media (Tweet) • Citations (Citation/Patent Indexes) ▫ PLos, Scopus, PubMed • There are tools that can look at this ▫ Possible alternative measures for Research Impact/Showcase your Research ▫ Opportunity to Track and Engage with your Audience ▫ Follow the conversation around your research
- 9. Altmetrics http://libguides.ucd.ie/bibliometrics/altmetrics • altmetrics isthe creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. ▫ J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Altmetrics: A manifesto, 26 October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto Jason Priem: Co Founder Impact Story • A beginner's guide to Altmetrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6XawJ7-880
- 10. Value? • Complement traditionalmetrics • Societal Impact ▫ (Interaction with Public, Govt, Policy,other Researchers) • Speed (attention to research outputs) • Connecting with other Researchers • Linked to Open Access • Making a case for funding • Improve visibility of Non Western Research !
- 11. However • Measuring onlineattention around an article is not a measure of quality • Recent • Not Normalised • Not great at tracking information ▫ (need stable identifiers e.g. DOI’s) • Definition: What are they? • Gaming ! ▫ http://www.dcscience.net/2014/01/16/why-you- should-ignore-altmetrics-and-other-bibliometric- nightmares/
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- 14. Altmetric Integrations • Summon(ProQuest) ▫ Library Search • Scopus (Elsevier)
- 15. ProQuest's Summon (Library Search)& Altmetrics
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- 19. Altmetrics Software • ImpactStory • PlumX (€) • Altmetrics.com (€) • Publish Or Perish • Google Scholar Citations
- 20. Impact Story Re-emerged recentlyas a free resource with Orcid ! http://v1.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger
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- 23. PlumX Sources (Citations inc:Scopus, PubMed & Patents)
- 24. PlumX Case Study Universityof Pittsburgh https://plu.mx/pitt/g/
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- 32. Analytics Orange = Citations Purple=Captures Blue=SocialMedia Green=Usage
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- 34. Publish or Perish (FreeDownload Tool) • Google Scholar Data Freely available • Often show much higher levels of citations than WOS or Scopus WOS & Scopus miss 60% of Google S but Google misses 40% of theirs (Harzing) Google Scholar now linked into WOS citations • Caveats: ▫ Includes some non scholarly citations ▫ Uneven coverage (better Humanities, Social Science, Engineering) ▫ Weaker on older publication’s ▫ Duplications (due to Automatic Processing) • http://www.harzing.com/publications/white-papers/google- scholar-a-new-data-source-for-citation-analysis
- 35. Exploring Difference • Comparing: ▫Publish or Perish ▫ Google Scholar Citations ▫ Scopus ▫ Web of Science • Case Study: ▫ Dr Dave Goulson, Sussex University An example of how to get it right ! Metrics & Academic Social Networks
- 36. Publish or Perish (HIndex: 55)(242 Docs)
- 37. Google Scholar Citations (310Docs) (H Index 43 (since 2011, 59 All)
- 38. Scopus (240 Docs) (HIndex 46)
- 39. Web of Science (256)(HIndex 43)
- 40. Orcid (444 ?) Double Countingtwo ID’s?
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- 44. Open Access • OpenAccess Journals • Subject Repositories • Institutional Repositories ▫ Directory of Open Access Journals https://www.openaire.eu/ ▫ Open Aire ▫ https://www.openaire.eu/ ▫ Open DOAR (Directory Open Access Repositories) http://www.opendoar.org/index.html ▫ RIAN (Irish Research) ▫ http://rian.ie/ ▫ ArXiv.org e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics (Cornell)
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- 47. Academic Social Networking ▫Mendeley (Elsevier)(9 million) ▫ Research Gate (9 million academics but more active & more papers than Academia.edu)(Berlin based, Investors + Microsoft) ▫ Academia.edu (34 million academics, San Francisco) ▫ Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (Elsevier)
- 48. Academic Social Networking •Sharing your papers and following Research • Increase Citations? • Source of metrics (Reads, Citations) • Networking/Collaboration Potential • Some do Reference Management, Citations & Bibliographies (Zotero, Mendeley) • Caveats: Not Open Access (Google can’t access) Metrics from data in Network only (Quality?) Not all Full Text Copyright Issues (Check with your Publisher or Sherpa Romeo Website) • https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/do-academic-social- networks-share-academics-interests
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Articles not Books: Humanities do better in Books & Monographs
- #8 Your own personal digital library! On Scribd you have access to the world's largest collection of e-books, comic books, sheet music and other written works. In our subscription membership collection that costs just $8.99 per month, you'll have access to over 400,000 books from over 900 publishers, including New York Times bestsellers, literary classics, groundbreaking non-fiction, and more in every genre! Scribd is also your own personal publishing company. If you're an author looking to publish your work on Scribd, you'll be putting your work on a site with 80 million readers around the globe. And our conversion technology makes it easy for someone to convert any book or written work into a beautiful webpage or mobile experience. FigShare: Research Data
- #10 This is where it began !
- #11 http://pitt.libguides.com/Altmetrics
- #13 https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2015/#explore Top 100 Academic Research of Public Interest
- #14 Sorted by Peer Reviews
- #24 http://plumanalytics.com/?utm_source=plumx&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=plumx_referral
- #27 Interdisciplenary Group of 8 Researchers
- #41 Nearly double the works: Scopus ID & Researchers ID?
- #43 3 Books, 6 Book Chapters, 213 Refereed Journals
- #44 Institutional Repository
- #45 Very Important for visibility plus a source of metrics
- #53 Elsevier purchased Mendeley so the integration of Stats should be interesting. Mendeley Stats already on Scopus.
- #55 Search for Papers. Not necessarily full text