Exploring Altmetrics with ImpactStory

Scholarly Communications Workshop Series

April 1, 2016

Rick Stringer-HyeScience and Engineering Library

Almetrics

Altmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional scholarly impact measures that are based on activity in web-based environments. As scholarship increasingly

moves online, these metrics track associated interactions and activity to generate fine-grained data,

allowing researchers and policy makers to create a higher resolution picture of the reach and impact of

academic research.

http://collections.plos.org/altmetrics

Impactstory

Impactstory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all

their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets,

and software. By helping scientists tell data-driven stories about their impacts, we're helping to build a new

scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship.

http://impactstory.org

Note: Impactstory is one of the leading almetrics services that are available. Others include Altmetric and Plum Analytics.

Concept of Impactstory

• ImpactStory follows open practices with its data - to the extent allowed by providers’ terms of service.

• It provides context to its metrics so that they are meaningful to non-experts: for example, someone may not know if five forks on GitHub is a lot of attention, but they can understand immediately if their project ranked in the 95th percentile of all GitHub repos created that year.

• The metrics provided by ImpactStory can be used by researchers who want to know how many times their work has been downloaded and shared, and also research funders who are interested in the impact of research beyond only considering citations to journal articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImpactStory

Digital Identifiers / Handles• ORCID (Open Researcher ID)

http://orcid.org/E.g. orcid.org/0000-0001-7626-9864

• ResearcherID (Thomson Reuters / Web of Science)http://www.researcherid.comE.g. E-7183-2016

• LinkedIn (Profile ID)E.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-stringer-hye-a435876

• Scopus IDhttps://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/support/authorprofileE.g. Author ID 15737449500

Altmetrics Sources

Types of Altmetrics

Articles, Preprints, Working papers, Technical reports• Citations: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed Central, and Google Scholar citations; citations in policy documents• Bookmarks: scholarly bookmarks on Mendeley & CiteULike; bookmarks by the public on Delicious & Pinboard; Twitter favorites• Discussion: Twitter mentions, Facebook wall posts; newspaper articles, videos, and podcasts; mentions on scholarly blog networks like

ResearchBlogging• Shares: Twitter mentions, Facebook shares• Views: Pageview & download statistics from the journal website or repository where you've archived your paper

Books and book chapters• Citations: Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar citations; Google Book citations• WorldCat holdings: the number of libraries worldwide that have purchased your book• Views: Pageview & download statistics from your publisher's website or the repository where you've archived your book/chapter.• Ratings: Amazon.com and Goodreads ratings• Discussion: see "Articles" above• Bookmarks: see "Articles" above

Data• Citations: Data Citation Index citations• Views: views and downloads from Figshare, Zenodo, Dryad, ICPSR, or other subject or institutional repositories• Reuse: GitHub forks• Discussion: Figshare comments; also see "Articles" above• Bookmarks: see "Articles" above

Types of AltmetricsSoftware• Citations: Google Scholar citations• Downloads: download statistics from GitHub, Bitbucket, Sourceforge, or other institutional or subject repository• Adaptations: GitHub forks, Bitbucket clones• Collaborators: GitHub collaborators• Discussion: GitHub gists, mentions on Twitter, Figshare comments• Bookmarks, Shares: see "Articles" above

Posters• Views: views and downloads on Figshare, Zenodo, or other institutional or subject repository• Discussion: Figshare comments; see also "Articles" above• Bookmarks, Shares: see "Articles" above

Slides• Views: views and downloads on Slideshare, Speakerdeck, and Figshare• Discussion: Slideshare and Figshare comments; see also "Articles" above• Shares: Slideshare embeds on other websites; mentions on Twitter, Facebook shares, LinkedIn shares• Likes: Slideshare and Speakerdeck likes• Bookmarks: see "Articles" above

Videos• Views: Youtube, Vimeo, and Figshare views• Likes/Dislikes: Youtube likes and dislikes; Vimeo likes• Discussion: Youtube, Vimeo, and Figshare comments; see also "Articles" above• Shares, Bookmarks: see "Articles" above

How are altmetrics being used?

Researchers are beginning to include altmetrics in their promotion and tenure packages, CVs, grant applications and resumes in several ways:

• In the narrative section, they list raw counts--akin to how many people use bibliometrics (e.g. "This study has been shared in over 70 news outlets worldwide")

• In their CV, they list raw counts under bullet-pointed publications that have seen a lot of attention

• In either their CV or narrative, they list percentile performance, giving better context to raw counts (e.g. "This paper has received a volume of online attention that is among the top 5% of papers published by Nature in the same time period.")

-- Stacy Konkiel, Outreach & Engagement Manager, Altmetric.com

See … Altmetrics for Researchers (Duke Medical Center) – a very thorough guide to how altmetrics can be used for professional advancement.

Research Impact: Citation Metrics and Altmetricshttp://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/researchimpact

Almetrics for Researchers (Duke)http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/altmetrics/