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Altmetrics are hereAre you ready to help your faculty?4/10/2014Stacy Konkiel@skonkiel / stacy@impactstory.org
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TODAY’S SCIENCE IS BORN-DIGITAL & INCREASINGLY WEB-NATIVE
Science Communication Lifecycle
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Analysis
Stories
Conversation
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HOW CAN FACULTY CAPTURE THESE IMPACTS?
It used to be simplisticAudience
Scholarly
Measure of Impact
Citing articlesJournal impact factors
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But what about...Different audiences? Different types of
engagement?
views, discussion, saves, citation, recommendation
scholars, public
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We return to our question:
HOW CAN FACULTY CAPTURE THESE IMPACTS?
scholarly publicrecommended faculty of 1000 popular press
cited traditional citation
wikipedia
discussed scholarly blogs blogs, twitter
saved mendeley, citeulike
delicious
read pdf views html views
Altmetrics measure impact...
Data
Analysis
Stories
Conversation
...along every step of the cycle
Citations
Downloads & Pageviews
Post-pub peer review
Post-pub peer review
Brookes PS. (2014) Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action. PeerJ 2:e313 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.313
Software usage
Readership stats
We return again to our question:
HOW CAN FACULTY CAPTURE THESE IMPACTS?
Let’s explore...
HOW CAN LIBRARIANS HELP FACULTY UNDERSTAND THESE IMPACTS?
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Understand altmetricsCorrelations between metricsThelwall M, Haustein S, Larivière V, Sugimoto CR (2013) Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64841. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064841
Jason Priem, Heather A. Piwowar, Bradley M. Hemminger. (2012). Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact. http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4745
Why scholars use social mediaShema H, Bar-Ilan J, Thelwall M (2012) Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information. PLoS ONE 7(5): e35869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035869
Mohammadi, E. and Thelwall, M. (2014), Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.23071
Know when (& which) altmetrics are appropriate to use
scholarly public
recommended faculty of 1000 popular press
cited Scopus/Web of Knowledge/
Google Scholar citation
wikipedia
discussed scholarly blogs blogs, twitter
saved mendeley, citeulike delicious
read pdf views html views
Learn & teach the tools
Learn & teach the tools
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What’s cutting-edge today will be commonplace soon.
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