introduction to bilbliometrics and altmetrics
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Prof Chris Oliver @CyclingSurgeon
“The Buzz”
What should I read?
What’s important?
How is my research used?
InterviewsSurveys
ObservationsBibliometrics
Webometrics
Scientists do more than write
papers….
Measuring Impact?
Objective Quantitative Measures
• Journal Citation Counts - Number of times an article is cited in other articles
• Journal Impact Factor - number of times all articles in a journal are cited in other journals
“It took approximately a generation for
bibliographic citation analysis to achieve
acceptability as a measure of academic impact."
Traces on the web
Web Resources• Google• ResearchGate• Mendeley• LinkedIn• Acadaemia.edu• Orcid• Altmetrics.com• Pure (CRIS)• Edinburgh Research Explorer
• How to measure academic impact?
• New Filters? • What kind of impact?• Level of aggregation?• Analysis by going for
scale?
altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on
the Social Web for analyzing, and informing
scholarship
Altmetrics tries to Measure
Viewed - HTML views & downloads
Discussed - journal comments, science blogs, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook & other social media
Saved - Mendeley, CiteULike and other social bookmarks
Cited - citations in the scholarly literature, tracked by Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef & others
Recommended - resources
Altmetrics = > Articles• Traditional articles & books• Objects in papers, figures, graphs, pictures• Software Tools• Datasets• Molecular structures, art• Algorithms• Slideshows - SlideShare• Grants, Patents• Mentions popular media, blogs & Social media
Who Does It?• Plum Analytics • Impact Story• PLOS• Altmetric.com - Service provider
with API for publishers, bibliographic websites, offer bookmarklet.
Quality?Impact?Retraction?Self Citation?
Altmetric.com
Altmetric.com
Benefits• Reader - new interesting current works & people
• Authors - recognition besides articles
• Publishers - measure “success” of publication, new authors, topics, more information for citation page
• Grantors & Universities - additional metrics to use for grants, hiring and promotion, but not yet!
• Bibliographic Databases - Another information element to display with the citation
Problems• Missing materials
• Buzz can be manipulated - will it become part of the PhD Curriculum?
• Academics don’t use Social Media like the Public - unbalanced
• Over reliance• Rank employees• How would Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity score
altmetricaly if it was published today?
Altmetric Future• Combining different types of measures may lead to more
accuracy
• More sources, better algorithms
• Might influence scientists to use more social media
• Altmetrics deployed inside institution to identify what buzz is
• Funding
Prof Chris Oliver @CyclingSurgeon
“The Buzz”