Academic social club

Andy Tattersall@andy_tattersall

Talk overview

What are AltmetricsWho is behind AltmetricsHow you can get involved with using them

Do you use any of these?

And these?

Do you recognise these?

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/19/peer-review-research-impact-altmetrics

Academia is changing forever

MOOCsOpen AccessImpact Big DataAltmetrics

The dissemination and communication of research is changing

Presentations and seminars

Funding and ethics applications

Academic books

Journal articles and posters

Term papers and essays

Meetings and conferences

Correspondence

Open accessSupplementary data

Online reference managersPress

Post-publication peer-reviewSocial media

Blogs

Traditional metrics struggle to reflect this

- Slow to accrue- Focus mostly on published articles

Published June 2014:

Starting to impact the behaviour of academics

Development of altmetrics (alternative indicators)

● to complement, not replace traditional metrics

● help people understand how research is being received and used,

and by who

● not intended as an indicator of quality

● can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal

impact’

● give credit for research outputs other than articles

So, what are they?

And who provides them?

What Altmetrics look at

Policy documents● AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies● European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)● Food and Agriculture Organization● GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis● Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)● International Monetary Fund (IMF) ● Mental Health Foundation (UK) - NEW● NICE Evidence● UNESCO● World Health Organization (WHO)

More being added each week…

Digging in to the data

Demographics

Twitter data from bio’s

Mendeley data based on who has saved the article to their library - anonymised

The Altmetric score and donut● developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received● not an indicator of quality of the research! ● useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once

Context

Publisher uses

And funders...

Librarian access● Free Altmetric Explorer accounts● Search for data on any article, from any publisher● Share with researchers or admins

Altmetric for Institutions

Explore your institution

Reporting

- save search filters

- set up automated email alerts

- export to excel, or reports on individual articles

- API output

- set up direct links into other systems

Who can use the data?

Institutional repositories

- free donut badge embeds

- just 2 lines of code: api.altmetric.com

- helps encourage deposits

- collates attention from all versions

info@altmetric.com

Researchers

altmetric.it

Details pages alerts

Impact Story

Kudos

MetricsCategories

USAGE(clicks, downloads, views, library

holdings, video plays)

CAPTURES(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,

readers, watchers)

MENTIONS(blog posts, comments, reviews,

Wikipedia links)

SOCIAL MEDIA(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)

CITATIONS(PubMed Central, Scopus, patents)

Concerns about gaming and misinterpretation

● All of Altmetric.com’s data is auditable

● They don’t show things like Facebook likes

● Systems in place to flag up suspect activity

The research process

Have an ideaSearch for research

Filter and review the research

Publish anddisseminate the research

Measure anddiscuss the research

The research process and you

Have an ideaSearch for research

Filter and review the research

Publish anddisseminate the research

Measure anddiscuss the research

LIS Professionals host, catalogue and search published research

LIS Professionals carry out systematic and literature reviews from search results

LIS Professionals experts in publishing and communication.OA, Social Media, blogging

LIS Professionals experts in measurement,bibliometrics,work in neutral role

Appraising

Social Media

Com

munications

ImpartialFlexibleHelpful

NetworkedCentrally based

Bibliometrics

Sear

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Te

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logist

Filte

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Where the LIS professional fits in

''All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move''.

Benjamin Franklin

Getting academics to the waterhole

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#Understand

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● Their way of working -long periods doing the same thing

● Their concernsPressure to publish research

● Their fearsMay not be used to Social Media ortechnology for that matter

● How busy they are● What they can get out of

Altmetrics

and what you can do to help them

#Demystify

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● Explain that Altmetrics are notabout Justin Bieber’s Tweets to his Beliebers

● That using tools like Altmetrics,Mendeley, Twitter and ImpactStorywill show them where their researchis reaching globally

● Help build case studies toshow what is out there

● Show junior researchers andstudents that their research andprofile will benefit

#TrainImage CC BY Sarah http://bit.ly/ZyiXxw

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● Bite size sessions● Workshops● Video tutorials● Webinars● Hangouts

#Champion● Look to see who on your

campus uses technology and social media

● Take them for a coffee● Get them to present a

session on how they use it

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#Network● Seek out natural

alliesImpact and research support, open access advocates, MOOCsters, library and information professionals, technicians,learning technologists,communications and marketing

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#Practice

New era for peer review?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/ (Last Accessed 14/10/2014)

https://theconversation.com/profiles/tom-stafford-91781/articles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

Thank you

@andy_tattersall

Thanks to @catherinelucy at Altmetric.com for use of slides 8-34.