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Citations and Donuts :Altmetrics in discovery

Kathy Sadler, Systems Librarian

Cranfield University

Wordle: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/6795008004//

Rebooting Referencing: Tools, Tech and TwinkleCILIP ARLG Eastern, Cambridge University, 4th June 2014http://www.cilip.org.uk/academic-and-research-libraries-group/events/rebooting-referencing

It’s all about impact.

• We want to help our researchers to find the best articles

• Our researchers want to know if their publications are being used

• Our institutions care about impact for the REF

Measuring impact

Traditional metrics for academic impact• Journal Impact Factor• Citation counts

…which are slow to accumulate.

Alternative metrics for impact on society and the online community• Press coverage• Reference managers • Pageviews, downloads• Blogs, commentary• Social media reach: shares, likes, tweets

…quicker, more timely

There are lots of altmetrics initiatives and companies. A couple of examples:

Some altmetrics players

“Tell the story of your research impact”. Researchers need an ORCID. Free, open source. Useful blog.https://impactstory.org/#/about

Commercial product for libraries, recently acquired by EBSCO. Measures influence via usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations.http://plumanalytics.com/metrics.html

Altmetric.com

• Aggregates usage, captures, mentions, etc• Calculates an item’s “score”• Publishes free embed codes and tools to allow libraries,

researchers (in fact anyone) see an item’s Altmetric score attractively visualised in an eyecatching colour coded “donut”

At Cranfield University we have embedded an Altmetric widget into our discovery service, EBSCO Discovery, to show the donut.

It has proved popular.

Image: http://www.thesimpsons.com/services/wallpaper.php?image=/_ugc/images/wallpapers/1920x1080_Homer.jpg

Mmmm……donuts!

Altmetrics in EBSCO Discovery

SearchPoint, our EDS instance (login required)

Altmetrics in EBSCO Discovery

Scroll down…

Altmetrics in EBSCO Discovery

Widget below the item details

This item has 1 tweet.Click for more details…

Altmetrics in EBSCO Discovery

The tweet can be read in an iFrame

Here’s another one

This item has 3 blog mentions.Right-click >

View in new tab

Links to the blogs themselves

When Altmetric has no score

When there’s no Altmetric at all

The link goes to another article that does have an Altmetric

score.

Linked example of Altmetric

Viewing the details

Tabs across the top to explore the altmetric components

Unpacking the score

Demographics: who’s involved?

Technical niggles

Expect “no show”s

• Not everything has a DOI

• Not everything with a DOI has an Altmetric score

• The widget shows on every item in our EDS but it isn’t really relevant for something like a book from the library collection.

• Altmetrics are more likely to accumulate for recent things with online coverage and attention so older items will score lower if at all

Imperfect de-duplication

These two are the same article from Nature, harvested 2 different ways

No altmetric at all!

A little caution

Altmetrics are relatively new and their credentials still being established

• Popularity and quality are not the same thing. Altmetrics can’t report:– Quality of content– Quality of people using the content

• Ambiguity of actions being counted:– Viewing or downloading doesn’t mean actually using or appreciating– People might tweet something because it is really bad!

Altmetrics aren’t an alternative to using citations… but rather an alternative to using ONLY citations.

See: Cat Chimes, Altmetric.com Altmetrics: Where are we and where are we going? https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/2LI3QD8rSlCmSY9rAgdB accessed 3/6/2014

But hey, it’s pretty, right?

EBSCO Discovery• Detailed Record widget in the EDS wiki

http://edswiki.ebscohost.com/Altmetric.com

Or I am happy to share my code - ask me at the end!

Ex Libris Primo• Code extension in EL Commons

http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2012/12/altmetrics-on-primo.html

ProQuest Summon• …er, not sure; but Altmetric publish plenty of embed codes

Getting Altmetrics into discovery

Other ways to harness Altmetrics#1

Institutional repository examples• Queen Margaret University (Altmetric donut)

http://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/3336/

• University of Warwick (Altmetric lozenge)http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59604/

• University of Pittsburgh (Plum Analytics) http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/17829/

• Wageningen UR, Netherlands (Altmetric lozenge in Primo)http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/expertise-services/Facilities/library.htm

Other ways to harness Altmetrics#2

Free Altmetric bookmarklet For Chrome, Firefox, Safari (But I have IE and it worked OK)

Screenshot: http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

Thank you!

Kathy Sadler

Systems Librarian

k.e.sadler@cranfield.ac.uk

+44 (0)1234 754444

Any questions?

Sources

• The Altmetrics manifesto (source of the wordle used in the opening slide)http://altmetrics.org/manifesto accessed 3/6/2014

• Altmetrics: What is it and how is it relevant to librarians?Presentation by Clarke Iakovakis and R Mirza, University of Texas at Arlington, December 2013 http://www.slideshare.net/ciakov/iakovakis-mirzaaltmetrics accessed 3/6/2014

• Altmetrics: A librarian’s outlook on potential applicationsLibrary Connect blog on Elsevier by Jenny Delasalle , May 2014 http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/2014-05/altmetrics-librarian-s-outlook-potential-applications accessed 3/6/2014

• Altmetrics, another view on impact. Presentation by Wouter Gerritsma, Information Specialist at Wageningen UR Library, Netherlands, April 2014http://www.slideshare.net/Wowter/altmetrics-another-view-on-impact/2 accessed 3/6/2014

• Altmetrics: Where are we and where are we going?Presentation by Cat Chimes of Altmetric.com, at #Futurepub3, 20 th May 2014 http://www.eventbrite.com/e/futurepub-3-new-developments-in-scientific-publishing-tickets-11730094027 accessed 29/5/2014

• Introduction to AltmetricsPresentation by Peter Kraker, Know-Center, Austria, Dec 2013http://www.slideshare.net/pkraker/introduction-to-altmetrics-29104154 accessed 3/6/2014

• Introduction to Altmetrics for STEM librariansPresentation by Linda Galloway, Janet Pease, Anne Rauh, June 2013http://www.slideshare.net/lmgalloway/introductionto-altmetrics-062013 accessed 2/6/2014

• Overview of the Altmetrics LandscapePresentation by Richard Cave of PLOS, November 2012http://www.slideshare.net/rcave/overview-of-the-altmetrics-landscape accessed 29/05/2014