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Andy Tattersall@andy_tattersall
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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
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
chin
g Indexing
Te
chno
logist
Filte
ring
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
Images CC BY Whatleydude http://bit.ly/1wPc0my Kyknoord http://bit.ly/1wgTLZ8
#Understand
Image CC BY Glen Edelson http://bit.ly/1o3tFb8
● 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
Image CC BY Sarah http://bit.ly/ZyiXxw
● 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
Image CC BY Michael Younghttp://bit.ly/Zyk2Wh
● 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
Image CC BY edwin.11 http://bit.ly/1ufH2kP
#Network● Seek out natural
alliesImpact and research support, open access advocates, MOOCsters, library and information professionals, technicians,learning technologists,communications and marketing
Image CC BY Bruno Girinhttp://bit.ly/1zeQnlc
#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.
