Mike Buschman Co-founder mike@plumanalytics.com

206-331-7297www.plumanalytics.com

@mikebuschman @plumanalytics

What is Plum building?

• Next generation impact analysis metrics for scholarly research.

• Aggregating artifact and author level metrics into a researcher graph.

• Metrics captured and correlated at the group/collection level (think: lab, department, museum, journal, etc.)

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This graph will power intuitive research directories and visualizations.

The Library

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• Supporting institution’s research output more important than ever• Perception of the library as

integral to research process has declined in last 10 years

• Trend away from collections model and towards service model

• Academic Libraries more and more interested in open access • Hope to reduce ever-growing

subscription prices• Some starting to earmark part of

collection budget to author fees• Mandating IR deposits

Benefits for the institution

• Recruiting rising stars• Capturing current metrics for grant funding support• Providing more data for department funding

decisions• Which repositories work best for showcasing

research output• What promotion methods work best• How researchers and departments stack up against

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Metrics are not the same

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Different types of metrics• Usage• Downloads, views, book holdings, ILL, document

delivery• Captures• Favorites, bookmarks, saves, readers, groups, watchers

• Mentions• Blog post, news story, Wikipedia article, comments,

review• Social Media• Tweets, Google +1s, likes, shares, ratings

• Citations• Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Microsoft

Academic Search, confined citations

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Some of the challenges• Many APIs for metrics not built yet, closed, or not

available at scale• Different versions of artifacts can be in many places• Authors and funders want to know combined

usage• What constitutes one artifact?• Pre-print, associated dataset, online video

• Different paths to the same artifact• Direct linking, link shorteners, link resolvers

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altmetrics

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#altmetricsallmetrics

Thank You!

Andrea Michalekandrea@plumanalytics.com215-280-1805@amichalek

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Mike Buschmanmike@plumanalytics.com206-331-7297@mikebuschman

@plumanalytics.com