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Altmetrics in PracticeALM Workshop

San Francisco – Oct 10, 2013

Andrea Michalekandrea@plumanalytics.com

@amichalek@plumanalytics

"Businesses have spent years understanding the past, Twitter has found a way to measure the present."

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Nova Spivack, CEO of Bottlenose

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Scholarly Data Exhaust

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PlumX: Built for Big Data

Built for Scale – Our goal is to track all the world’s researchers, all of their output, and metrics for each.

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18 Million Researchers Worldwide

>120 Million Scholarly Articles

Map artifacts people groups

Tracks 20+ Types of Artifacts• Articles• Blog posts• Book chapters• Books• Cases• Clinical Trials• Conference Papers• Data Sets• Figures• Grants• Interviews 6

• Letters• Media• Patents• Posters• Presentations• Reports• Source Code• Theses /

Dissertations• Videos• Web Pages

Largest List of Metrics Sources• Amazon• Bit.ly• CrossRef• Delicious• Dryad• dSpace• ePrints• Facebook• Figshare• Github

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• Google+• Medwave• Mendeley• Microsoft

Academic Search• PLOS• PubMed• Reddit• Research Blogging• Scopus

• SlideShare• SourceForge• Stack Overflow• Twitter• USPTO• Vimeo• Wikipedia• Worldcat• YouTube

Our Approach to Altmetrics•Citations•Usage•Captures•Mentions•Social Media

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Altmetrics

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PlumDatastore

CrawlScrape

APIBulk Load

Stream

CrawlScrapeAPIBulk Load

Real Time

Metrics

Artifacts

PeopleGroups

Big Data

Algorithms:• Ranking• Analytics• IDR

Products:• Directories• Dashboards• Widgets• Data API• And more

Researcher Graph

PlumX Platform

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Artifact / Article Level Metrics

Research Output Summarized

Clear, visual summaries of each researcher’s or group’s output

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PlumX Author Dashboard

Tabular ViewSortable, table-view of full output.

Exportable to spreadsheets or integrated into other applications.

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PlumX Tracks Groups• University• Institute• Museum• Department• Lab• Company• Publisher• Journal• Volume• Issue• Collection 14

PlumX / Smithsonian

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Search: Measuring Present Impact Changes the Game

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Embed Metrics Everywhere

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Beyond ALMs: Groupings & Author Widgets too

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Learn more:

http://www.plumanalytics.comhttps://plu.mx

@plumanalytics@amichalek

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andrea@plumanalytics.com215.280.1805