The future of metrics on Open Science

ABEC Meeting 2020Rachael Lammey, Crossref

Rachael LammeyHead of Community Outreach

Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.

We’re a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better.

Mission

What’s our interest in metrics?

• DOIs & metadata help uniquely identify works so you know which research is being cited or referenced in related research.

• Services that involve citation information• We store citation metadata from members• Interest in using Crossref metadata and DOIs to

support open metrics that look beyond citation. We provide data, not the metrics.

Where to start?

Or finish?

Evolution

https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/530

https://blog.afandian.com/2018/05/five-principles-altmetrics/

The world of altmetrics

What’s new and what’s next?

Not just articles

• Make Data Count: Promotion of bibliometrics and qualitative and quantitative studies around data usage and citation behaviors

• OPERAS: open metrics for OA books

https://makedatacount.org/https://metrics.operas-eu.org/measures

Metrics around openness

• The TOP factor aims to recognise elements of journal quality based on their transparency and openness. Created by the Center for Open Science.

• Openness Profile

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/top-factor-rates-journals-on-transparency-opennesshttps://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/openness-profile

A last word: metrics literacy

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

The Leiden Manifesto

https://sfdora.org/http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/https://stefaniehaustein.com/metrics-literacy/

The future of open metrics

• Is evolving to be more granular, cover more content types and be more open

• More tools are integrating this information• It’s tempting just to want a number• But with more open information, we can do smarter

things as a community to see how research is connected, shared and used.

Thank you!rlammey@crossref.org

https://crossref.org