Article Impact

Richard Cave, I.T. Director

Charleston Conference, November 7, 2012

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Traditional assessment has focused on the journal

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiley-asia-blog/7730441772/

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Citations are only a small indication of how a research article is used

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0.3%

100%

22.3%

Article-Level Metrics collected October 10, 2012 for 62,536 PLOS Papers

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Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a comprehensive and multi-dimensional suite of transparent and established metrics at the article levelhttp://article-level-metrics.plos.org/alm-info/

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The PLOS Article-Level Metrics project started in 2009 and tracks usage, citations and social web activity for all PLOS articles

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Usage Citations Social Web

PLOS Journals(HTML, PDF, XML)

CrossRef Mendeley

Scopus CiteULike

PubMed Central(abstract, fulltext, PDF, figures)

Web of Science Facebook

PubMed Central Twitter

Wikipedia Research Blogging

PLOS Comments

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New usage patterns in scholarly communication

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"Scholarly User""Broader Impact"

PDF Downloads HTML Views

PubMed Central PLOS Comments

Citations Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia

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ALMs track new usage patterns

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Who?

When?

Where?

Why?

How?

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ALMs reveal “who” is using the research

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ALMs reveal “when” research is discussed

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Number of Tweets about Big Food collection

Data collected August 19, 2012.

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ALMs show “how” articles are usedPLOS Biology research articles published in 2009. Usage stats from PLOS website. One outlier was excluded.

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Alzheimer‘s Association funded PLOS articlesGeolocation of 410 authors for 84 articles

ALMs show “where” articles are used

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ALMs provide context for “why” an article is used

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Wikipedia entry referring PLOS ONE research article

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Tweets from South Africa

Extending the scope of ALM

“Article level metrics are important, yes, but much more important for an

Institutional Repository, is the ability to show Author level metrics, and Institution

level metrics,”

David Palmer, Systems Librarian,

Univ of Hong Kong

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Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarshipAltmetrics Manifestohttp://altmetrics.org/about/

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Several organizations are already collecting your metrics

ScienceCard

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and soon…

Several publishers are already displaying altmetrics

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1. Collect and display Article-Level Metrics for the articles you publish

2. Attract authors by offering users analytics of interest

3. Adapt the ALM or ImpactStory open source application to your needs and integrate it into your publishing platform

4. Join the #altmetric discussions

How can I get involved as a publisher?  

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1. Collect and track altmetrics • For research articles published at your

university• For research of interest• Display altmetrics on author bios

2. Tell publishers that you want Article-Level metrics for every published research article

3. Join the #altmetric discussions

How can I get involved as a librarian?