Andy Tattersall

@andy_tattersall

Talk overview

What are Altmetrics

Who is behind Altmetrics

How you can get involved with

using them

Do you use any of these?

And these?

Do you recognise these?

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/19/peer-review-research-impact-altmetrics

Academia is changing forever

MOOCs

Open Access

Impact

Big Data

Altmetrics

The dissemination and communication

of research is changing

Presentations and seminars

Funding and ethics applications

Academic books

Journal articles and posters

Term papers and essays

Meetings and conferences

Correspondence

Open access

Supplementary data

Online reference managers

Press

Post-publication peer-review

Social media

Blogs

Traditional metrics struggle to

reflect this

- Slow to accrue

- Focus mostly on published articles

Published

June 2014:

Starting to impact the behaviour of academics

Development of altmetrics

(alternative indicators)

● to complement, not replace traditional metrics

● help people understand how research is being received and used,

and by who

● not intended as an indicator of quality

● can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal

impact’

● give credit for research outputs other than articles

So, what are they?

And who provides them?

What Altmetrics look at

Policy documents

● AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies

● European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

● Food and Agriculture Organization

● GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis

● Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

● International Monetary Fund (IMF)

● Mental Health Foundation (UK) - NEW

● NICE Evidence

● UNESCO

● World Health Organization (WHO)

More being added each week…

Digging in to the data

Demographics

Twitter data from

bio’s

Mendeley data based

on who has saved

the article to their

library - anonymised

The Altmetric score and donut● developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received

● not an indicator of quality of the research!

● useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once

Context

Publisher uses

And funders...

Librarian access

● Free Altmetric Explorer accounts

● Search for data on any article, from any publisher

● Share with researchers or admins

Altmetric for Institutions

Explore your institution

Reporting

- save search filters

- set up automated email alerts

- export to excel, or reports on individual articles

- API output

- set up direct links into other systems

Who can use the data?

Institutional repositories

- free donut badge embeds

- just 2 lines of code: api.altmetric.com

- helps encourage deposits

- collates attention from all versions

info@altmetric.com

Researchers

altmetric.it

Details pages alerts

Impact Story

Kudos

MetricsCategories

USAGE(clicks, downloads, views, library

holdings, video plays)

CAPTURES(bookmarks, code forks, favorites,

readers, watchers)

MENTIONS(blog posts, comments, reviews,

Wikipedia links)

SOCIAL MEDIA(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)

CITATIONS(PubMed Central, Scopus, patents)

Concerns about gaming and

misinterpretation

● All of Altmetric.com’s data is auditable

● They don’t show things like Facebook likes

● Systems in place to flag up suspect activity

The research process

Have an

idea

Search for

research

Filter and

review the

research

Publish and

disseminate

the research

Measure

and

discuss the

research

The research process and you

Have an

idea

Search for

research

Filter and

review the

research

Publish and

disseminate

the research

Measure

and

discuss the

research

LIS Professionals host,

catalogue and search

published research

LIS Professionals carry out

systematic and literature

reviews from search results

LIS Professionals

experts in publishing

and communication.

OA, Social Media,

blogging

LIS Professionals

experts in

measurement,

bibliometrics,

work in neutral role

Appraising

Impartial

Flexible

Helpful

Networked

Centrally based

Where the LIS professional fits in

''All mankind is divided into three classes: Those

that are immovable, those that are movable, and

those that move''.

Benjamin Franklin

Getting academics to the waterhole

Images CC BY Whatleydude http://bit.ly/1wPc0my Kyknoord http://bit.ly/1wgTLZ8

#Understand

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● Their way of working -

long periods doing the same thing

● Their concerns

Pressure to publish research

● Their fears

May not be used to Social Media or

technology for that matter

● How busy they are

● What they can get out of

Altmetrics

and what you can do to help them

#Demystify

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● Explain that Altmetrics are not

about Justin Bieber’s Tweets to

his Beliebers

● That using tools like Altmetrics,

Mendeley, Twitter and ImpactStory

will show them where their research

is reaching globally

● Help build case studies to

show what is out there

● Show junior researchers and

students that their research and

profile will benefit

#Train

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● Bite size sessions

● Workshops

● Video tutorials

● Webinars

● Hangouts

#Champion

● Look to see who on your

campus uses technology

and social media

● Take them for a coffee

● Get them to present a

session on how they use it

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#Network

● Seek out natural

allies

Impact and research

support, open access

advocates,

MOOCsters,

library and information

professionals,

technicians,

learning technologists,

communications and

marketing

Image CC BY Bruno Girin

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#Practice

New era for peer review?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/ (Last Accessed 14/10/2014)

https://theconversation.com/profiles/tom-stafford-91781/articles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

Thank you

@andy_tattersall

Thanks to @catherinelucy at Altmetric.com for

use of slides 8-34.