Research outputs & impact in the digital environment:opportunities and challenges for the social researcher

Caroline Sutton Publisher, Co-Action PublishingPresident, Open Access Scholarly Publisher’s Association (OASPA)

SoRAD meeting14-15 June 2012, Stockholm

A bit about Co-Action Publishing

Established as Swedish limited liability company in 2007 by three former executives from academic publishing industry

Founding Member Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, current President

Publish journals across disciplines, including Social Sciences and the Humanities, but primarily medicine

30 fully-open access journals currently in portfolio

www.ijqhw.net

www.vulnerablegroupsandinclusion.net

Looking for a guest editor for a thematic cluster on Recovering drug addicts and inclusion.

Image by Bernd Sauerwein, accessed via Wikimedia,http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planungsliteratur.JPG

www.ihop-net.org

OPEN ACCESS = Free Access + Re-use

Creative Commons Licenses

Most common:

Attribution 3.0

(CCBY or CCAL) Attribution-

Noncommercial 3.0

(CCBY-NC)

04/13/2023

Universe of a Subscription Journal

Access only for those who have a subscription – for Food & Nutrition Research, approx. 700-800 (majority society members)

04/13/2023

Universe of the OA Journal

Healthcare Workers – esp Physicians &

NutritionistsNutrition

advocates

General citizens interested in their

own nutrition

Gov’t agencies &

policy-makers

Researchers from related fields

Related profession

s

Industries with links

Pharmaceutical Co

(e.g. Novartis Medical Nutrition)

Print and online magazines

04/13/2023

Usage IncreasedDuring first six months: Over 42 000 full text article requests Over 32 000 full pages viewed by over 6 000 different

visitors to the website

Visitors were from 120 different countries while subscriptions had been from 14 countries

After three years: 5-6000 visitors per month 10 000- 17000 downloads per month Visitors from 190 countries, with the US accounting for

20% of traffic. Submissions are up, citations are up (Unofficial impact

calculation: 2.708) Over 2900 members on LinkedIn, over

1000 registered readers.

”A social network diagram”, Screenshot taken by Darwin Peacock, accessed through Wikimedia; distributed under a CCL 3.0.

Understanding knowledge as a network (vs. property)

Knowledge as an infrastructure

Publisher’s platform Ebsco DOAJ Institutional or subject-based repository, or both Author’s website Mendeley +/or other reference management

systems PDF/link sent to colleagues Metadata And lots of other places!

Think ’Google’, Think ’Max Strategy’

DOIs (open URLs) for articles, data sets, other outputs.CrossRef www.crossref.org

Digital Author Identifiers:ORCID: Open Researcher & Contributor IDhttp://about.orcid.org/abouthttp://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/11/20/orcid/

Capture information as metadata at time of submission

Permanent Identifiers to Reduce Ambiguity

Academic impact

Economic and societal impact

Instrumental

Conceptual

Capacity building

Understanding impact in today’s world

Can the Impact Factor measure this?

Article level metrics

www.total-impact.org

Article level metrics

Social bookmarking

Mega journals challenge pre-publication assessment

1. How your research and its impact are evaluated today will not be the same in five years time.

2. What are good indicators of impact (along the various dimensions that have been defined)? What can we measure? What should we be measuring?

3. How should we be measuring them? What do they mean?

4. Measurements in future will allow for greater granularity.

5. In the meantime, what kind of strategy should you follow to ensure impact?

In a nutshell….

Caroline.Sutton@co-action.net

THANK YOU!