How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impact

How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impactWilliam Gunn, Ph.D.Head of Academic OutreachMendeley

@mrgunnhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-2054

...and aggregates research

data in the cloud

Mendeley extracts research data…

Install Mendeley Desktop

Collecting rich signals from domain experts.

Home Work Mobile

Cloud Library

Shared Folder

Read papers + keep track of notes

470M documents

Taking some misery out of writing

Mendeley Research Catalog

Mendeley Research Catalog

New forms of discovery

• Mendeley Suggest– personalized recommendations based

on reading history• related articles

– relatedness based on document similarity

• recommender frameworks– implement recommendations as a

service• third-party recommender services

– serve niche audiences

Information Extraction

We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud

http://code-research.eu/

Connecting researchers

Search

ReadAnnotateOrganize

Write

Import

Data we collect

• Metadata about the paper–title, author, tags, annotations, reads, shares, groups

• Metadata about the researcher–discipline, educational status, country, papers they’ve authored, presentations, expertise

2.7M researchers

Defining readership

• Each document addition is a “read”

• stamped with metadata describing the context of the read event

• a read is like a citation, but faster and captures more

research impacts more than authors

Citations are slow

Mendeley is fast

Readership vs. citations

• it comes with a payload of metadata

• it accrues faster• it illuminates previously hidden impact

http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1

altmetrics show broader impact

http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.04

http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Lin_Fenner.html

altmetrics show broader impact

Issues To Be Addressed

• Identity• Privacy• Attribution• Gaming• Filtration

standards/best practice

What would people build if they could get the data?

• Impact Story – get credit for all your work

• PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers

• Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries (EBSCO)

• Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (Digital Science)

www.mendeley.com

william.gunn@mendeley.com@mrgunn