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Article Level MetricsJuan Pablo Alperin (@juancommander)
For many years
there could only be
1metric
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one slight problem
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world according to WoS@juancommander
if you’re from the South, and your public is in the South, you are ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanehollingsworth/3510211925
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three regional
initiatives
to the rescue@juancommander
is the goal to just make a betterIF?
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an alternative source for
citations@juancommander
Meneghini, R., Mugnaini, R., & Packer, A. L. (2006). International versus national oriented Brazilian scientific journals. A scientometric analysis based on SciELO and JCR-ISI databases. Scientometrics, 69, 529–538. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0168-z
Meneghini, R., & Packer, A. L. (2007). Is there science beyond English? Initiatives to increase the quality and visibility of non-English publications might help to break down language barriers in scientific communication. EMBO reports, 8(2), 112–6. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400906
Meneghini, R., Packer, A. L., & Nassi-Calò, L. (2008). Articles by latin american authors in prestigious journals have fewer citations. (S. M. Bowyer, Ed.)PloS one, 3(11), e3804. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003804
and some good studies came out of it
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and they mostly
assert the bias
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against developing countries
and now...
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there are
alternatives!
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what do they mean for the SOUTH@juancommander
and what are our motivations
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and what is my motivation
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what should be ourmotivation
for caring about altmetrics/ALM
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• new ways gaining visibility• new ways demonstrating visibility
• good articles can stand out from journal• researchers can stand out for good work
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• counting some forms of public impact • being rewarded for other kinds of impact
• incentive to gear research to public(local?) interests• move away from dependencies on measures biased against the South
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¡¡CAUTION!!
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facebook penetration@juancommander
All Place coordinates in the Twitter Decahose 23 October 2012 to 30 November 2012http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654
are you surprised?
Twitter is usage is very skewed
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lets look at SciELO
data from articles published in SciELO.br in 2012collected metrics using PLOS ALM App
data can be found at http://pkp-alm2.lib.sfu.ca
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crossref 1522 (8.5%)
mendeley 989 (5.5%)
pmc 439 (2%)
citeulike 16 (0%)
looking at coverage@juancommander
at least one event
87%
13%
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the signal is
LOW@juancommander
launched an
ALM
giving priority to the developing world
using
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launched an
ALM
giving priority to the small publishers
using
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our plan
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make these metrics prominent
on article pagesthe tried and true “shove it in people’s faces” approach
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hopefully: •change culture around communicating research
•open minds to alternative measures of impact
•attract readers to a different group of journals
•give an incentive to do research of public interest
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We are actively looking for journals
especially from Latin America
sign-up your OJS journal here! http://tinyurl.com/pkp-alm
and tell your friends!
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thank you
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