What's your Impactstory?

Heather Piwowar
@researchremix
Impactstory

#opencon 2016
some photos NC, SA
What’s your impactstory?
Sunday, November 13, 16

Is measuring good?

Is measuring good?
or bad?

Does measuring cheapen, lessen,
oversimplify, and pervert?

Does measuring cheapen, lessen,
oversimplify, and pervert?
Or does it uncover and empower?

both, of course.

The key:

The key:
measure what matters.

So. We want to move away from the
journal impact factor.
It keeps us bound to journals, and
traditional journals,
and traditional audiences

What to move toward?

first: individual citations.

first: individual citations.
article-level.
scholarly audience.
broad-based, not 3 reviewers.

Google Scholar!

so. second: wider audiences!

third: doing the right thing.

impactstory.org

3 steps:
sign up for google scholar and impactstory
talk with your peers and advisors about
how to include in CVs and evaluations
spread the word!

three steps:
individual citations
individual altmetrics
what’s your #OAscore?

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