u maryland connect: how mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impact
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How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impactWilliam Gunn, Ph.D.Head of Academic OutreachMendeley
@mrgunnhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-2054
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...and aggregates research
data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts research data…
Install Mendeley Desktop
Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
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Home Work Mobile
Cloud Library
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Shared Folder
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Read papers + keep track of notes
470M documents
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Taking some misery out of writing
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Mendeley Research Catalog
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Mendeley Research Catalog
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New forms of discovery
• Mendeley Suggest– personalized recommendations based
on reading history• related articles
– relatedness based on document similarity
• recommender frameworks– implement recommendations as a
service• third-party recommender services
– serve niche audiences
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Information Extraction
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We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud
http://code-research.eu/
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Connecting researchers
Search
ReadAnnotateOrganize
Write
Import
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Data we collect
• Metadata about the paper–title, author, tags, annotations, reads, shares, groups
• Metadata about the researcher–discipline, educational status, country, papers they’ve authored, presentations, expertise
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2.7M researchers
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Defining readership
• Each document addition is a “read”
• stamped with metadata describing the context of the read event
• a read is like a citation, but faster and captures more
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research impacts more than authors
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
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Problems with Impact Factor
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The higher the impact factor, the more likely the research is to be retracted.
http://iai.asm.org/cgi/reprint/IAI.05661-11v1?view=long&pmid=21825063
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http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030291
Problems with Impact Factor
During discussions with Thomson Scientific over which article types in PLoS Medicine the company deems as “citable,” it became clear that the process of determining a journal's impact factor is unscientific and arbitrary.”
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Citations are slow
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Mendeley is fast
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Readership vs. citations
• it comes with a payload of metadata
• it accrues faster• it illuminates previously hidden impact
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http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1
altmetrics show broader impact
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.04
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http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Lin_Fenner.html
altmetrics show broader impact
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Issues To Be Addressed
• Identity• Privacy• Attribution• Gaming• Filtration
standards/best practice
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Amgen: 47 of 53 “landmark” oncology publications could not be reproduced
Bayer: 43 of 67 oncology & cardiovascular projects were based on contradictory results
Dr. John Ioannidis: 432 publications purporting sex differences in hypertension, multiple sclerosis, or lung cancer. Only one data set was reproducible
There is no gold standard
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Cultural skew is important
South America is weak on N.A. social media, strong on Mendeley
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What would people build if they could get the data?
• Impact Story – get credit for all your work
• PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers
• Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries (EBSCO)
• Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (Digital Science)