This webinar features two PlumX customers: Tim Deliyannides, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head, Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh - Tim will talk about how the library is a publisher at Pitt and how they use altmetrics to assist their publishing analytics. Additionally, Tim will talk about how Pitt instrumented altmetrics in their institutional repository and the positive results they’ve had from doing that. Robin Champieux, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University - Robin will talk about how they use altmetrics at OHSU to integrate the library into the research process and to support and interact with the researchers and research institutes. Andrea Michalek, Co-Founder and President of Plum Analytics, will kick off the session with a brief introduction.

1. 1
Practical Uses of Altmetrics
Andrea Michalek
President, co-founder Plum Analytics
@amichalek | @plumanalytics

2. Tell the Story.

3. 3
Our Approach to Metrics
• Citations
• Usage
• Captures
• Mentions
• Social Media
ALLmetrics

4. 4
Journal citations are the current state of
Scholarly Measure
4
Journal
Impact Factor
3.161

5. 5
Citation Based Metrics
• Thomson Reuters  JCR/Web of Science
– Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
– Eigenfactor
• Elsevier  Scopus
– SCImago Journal Rank Indicator (SJR)
– Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
• Google Scholar
– Google Journal Metrics

6. 6
No Single Tool – Captures all
Citations
Citations of a book in Bar-Ilan, J. (2010) Citations to the “Introduction to
informetrics” indexed by WOS, Scopus and Google Scholar.
Scientometrics, 82(3), p.504

7. 7
Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomastern/15021713702

8. 8
2-5
years
Idea
Blog Post
?
years
Grant
Conference
3-5
years
Video
Citations
Metrics timeline:
From Idea to Impact
It can take at least 2 - 5 years
from idea to a published
peer-reviewed journal article
Before PlumX After PlumX
Due to the pace of scholarly
publishing, it takes another 3 - 5
years from the time the work is
published to get to critical mass
of citation counts
From idea to measurable
citation counts can take
5 - 10 years
Metrics
available
immediately
citation counts
presentation view
share
save reference
bookmark
PDF download
click
video play
dataset download
citation counts
tweet
Publication

9. 9
Samples of PlumX Metrics Sources
• Amazon
• Bit.ly
• CrossRef
• Delicious
• Dryad
• dSpace
• EBSCO
• ePrints
• Facebook
• figshare
• Github
• Goodreads
• Google+
• Medwave
• Mendeley
• PLOS
• PubMed Central
• Reddit
• Research
Blogging
• Scopus
• SlideShare
• SourceForge
• Stack Overflow
• Twitter
• USPTO
• Vimeo
• Wikipedia
• Worldcat (OCLC)
• YouTube

10. 10
All Types of Research Artifacts
• Articles
• Blog posts
• Book chapters
• Books
• Cases
• Clinical Trials
• Conference
Papers
• Data Sets
• Figures
• Government Docs
• Grants
• Interviews
• Letters
• Media
• Patents
• Posters
• Presentations
• Reports
• Source Code
• Theses /
Dissertations
• Videos
• Web Pages

11. 11
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)

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USAGE
• Is anyone reading our work?
• Did anyone watch our videos?
• Usage is the #1 stat researchers want to know after
Citation counts
• PlumX is the only product that includes Usage
clicks, downloads,
views, library holdings,
video plays

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• Captures indicate that someone wants to come back
to the work
• Early indicator of future citations
bookmarks, favorites,
readers, watchers
CAPTURES

14. 14
• This category measures people truly engaging with
your research
• Automatically uncover the conversations about your
research
• Discover feedback, opinions, etc.
blog posts,
comments, reviews,
Wikipedia linksMENTIONS

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• Social media measures how well a researcher is
promoting their work
• This is especially important for early career
researchers to measure and understand
• Track the buzz and attention around your research
output
+1s, likes, shares,
tweets
SOCIAL MEDIA

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• Citations still a standard of long-term impact
• Including citations enables side-by-side analysis with
other metrics categories
PubMed Central,
Scopus, patents
CITATIONS

17. 5 Categories in Action –
Example Article
Article level
metrics are the
building blocks
for PlumX

18. 18
Plum X Summary
CATEGORIZE MEASURE ANALYZE
• By metrics type
• By type of output
• By YOUR
categories (e.g.
department,
subject, grant)
Group research
outputs your way
• PlumX platform
automatically
gathers metrics
about each
category for each
artifact
See impact at a
glance
• Through
Dashboards and
Analytics
Discover your
research stories

19. There’s a new way
to tell the story

20. Practical Uses of
Altmetrics at the
University of Pittsburgh
Timothy Deliyannides
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
Practical Uses of Altmetrics, a Webinar presented by
Plum Analytics and Library Journal
February 11, 2015, 1:00PM EST

21. WHY ALTMETRICS?

22. Goals of the program
 Serve the Pitt community
– Track impact of documents in the institutional repository
– Custom researcher profiles for a small pilot group
– Full rollout to all University researchers forthcoming
 Serve our publishing clients
– Embed PlumX Widget in all journals and repositories
– Demonstrate impact of published articles and preprints
– Help integrate altmetrics with Open publishing platforms

23. Why altmetrics?
 More comprehensive
– Citations, usage, social media
 Covers impact of online behavior
– Because scholars increasingly
work online
 Measures impact of nontraditional scholarly formats
 Measures impact immediately
– Because citation counts take years to
appear in literature

24. Pitt and PlumX
http://plu.mx/pitt
 Pitt was Plum’s first customer (2012)
 Integrated with:
– Institutional Repository (d-scholarship.pitt.edu)
– 4 subject-based repositories
– 37 Open Access journals

25. ALTMETRICS AND THE
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

28. OPEN ACCESS and IMPACT:
A Tale of Two ETDs

35. IN THE POPULAR MEDIA:
a new large-bodied
oviraptorosaurian therapod

41. THE PLUMX
RESEARCHER PROFILE

46. ALTMETRICS AND
SUBJECT-BASED
REPOSITORIES

49. ALTMETRICS AND JOURNAL
PUBLISHING

54. PlumX at Pitt:
http://plu.mx/pitt
THANK YOU
Tim Deliyannides
tsd@pitt.edu
@deliyannides
Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
http://www.library.pitt.edu/oscp @OSCP_Pitt

55. ALTMETRICS & THE RESEARCH WORKFLOW:
INTEGRATING UTILITY
ROBIN CHAMPIEUX
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION LIBRARIAN
ORCID: 0000-0001-7023-9832
@ARCSCON

56. RESEARCH INTENSIVE, ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER
$356 MILLION IN GRANTS & AWARDS
2,800 STUDENTS
2,608 FACULTY

57. I _ P A _ T

58. Build a more complete understanding
of the impact of OHSU research.
Track the tools being used to share
scientific information.
Identify communities we’re engaging.
Provide impact data for invisible
contributions.
WHY?

60. LESSONS
LEARNED
Our outreach and delivery was
contextually disconnected from research
workflows and daily activities.
Data struck most researchers as
interesting, but not particularly useful or
about the science.

61. A NEW (PRACTICAL)
APPROACH
Validity
Utility
Integration

62. Using Quantitative Breadcrumb to Tell
Qualitative Stories of Impact
OCTRI Pilot Project Awards:

66. Tweeters by Influence
18,801 Followers
10,762 Followers
10,412 Followers 9,267 Followers
2,355 Followers

67. Evidence of Prestige Attention

68. But, more importantly, evidence of
clinical attention

71. From Listing to Articulating Impact:
Altmetrics & the NIH Biosketch
Scientific Contributions

72. Citations
Social Media
FINDING THE STORY IN DIFFERENT PLACES

73. Thank You.
ROBIN CHAMPIEUX
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION LIBRARIAN
ORCID: 0000-0001-7023-9832
ADVANCING RESEARCH COMMUNICATION &
SCHOLARSHIP
A New Conference, April 26 – 28, Philadelphia
@ARCSCON
commons.pacificu.edu/arcs