what it means for PKP to offer

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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