Altmetrics, another view on impact

Wouter Gerritsma, April 2014

Altmetrics?

New suit of metrics introduced by Priem et al. 2010 http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

●A better filter and an alternative to citations and peer review

Other terms:

●Article level metrics

●Influmetrics

●Social media metrics

●Alternative metrics

Article level metrics?

Altmetrics promises

A proxy for scientific impact

●More timely than citations

Broader impact than measured by citations only

●Societal impact

Impact of more varied outputs

●Capturing impacts of other publication types

●Measuring other scientific outputs (data sets, ELN, code)

●Measuring other forms of influence (press, blogs, twitter etc.)

Citations are only a tiny fraction of article usage

Source: Cave 2012

Relationship between #Articlelevelmetrics #Altmetrics and Journal level metrics

Source: @IanMulvany

https://twitter.com/IanMulvany/status/424904870643384320

Citations versus social media uptake

Source: Haustein, 2013

Proportion of articles covered by sourceMetrics for 61,610 PLoS journal articles published until October 9, 2012

Source: Cave 2012

Some of the players

Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile1,193 tweets from 1,083 accounts with an upper bound of 1,956,468 combined followers

480 tweets from 424 accounts with an upper bound of 1,034,481 combined followers

The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990–2013

362 tweets from 225 accounts with an upper bound of 1,999,134 combined followers.

What publishers are doing

PLOS

What publishers are doing

PLOS

Nature

Scopus

What the library is doing

What the library is doing

What the library is doing

What the library is doing

What the library is going to do

Add more DOI's to publications in the repository

●DOI from publishers

●Issuing DOI's for our own publications (theses, reports)

Testing Altmetric add-in in the repository

●Collect and aggregate altmetrics to person and group level

Testing PLoS ALM api

Watch the developments

What you can do!

Make and ORCID

●Use the Scopus2ORCID tool http://orcid.scopusfeedback.com/

Make a Google Scholar profile

Connect these to Impact Story

Start a Mendeley account

With some reservations

References

Cave, R. 2012. Article impact. Charleston Conference, November 7, 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/rcave/article-impact-alm-and-altmetrics

Haustein, S. 2013. Disciplinary differences and other biases : Exploring social media metrics in scholarly context Presentation at NISO webinar on altmetrics on November 13, 2013. http://www.slideshare.net/StefanieHaustein/haustein-niso-webinar131113-28717635

Piwowar, H. 2013. Altmetrics: Value all research products. Nature, 493(7431): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/493159a

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