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Robin Featherstone, MLISResearch Librarian, Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta@rmfeatherstonehttp://www.slideshare.net/featherr
Altmetrics for Showing Research Impact
http://www.ualberta.ca/ARCHE/@arche4evidence
21 Nov 2014
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Conflict of interest disclosure
• I have had free access to the Altmetric.com Explorer since September 2013
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Altmetrics (AKA Social Media Metrics, Alternative Assessment Metrics) …
[…] capture ways in which articles are disseminated throughout the expanding scholarly ecosystem, and reach beyond the scope of traditional trackers and filters.
[…] measure research impact by including references outside of traditional scholarly publishing.
1. Public Library of Science (PLOS). Altmetrics. [29 April 2014]. Available from http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/alt-metrics/
2. Baynes G. Scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics: Some introductory advice for the lost and bemused. Insights. 2012;25(3):311-5. doi: 10.1629/2048-7754.25.3.311.
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Altmetric tools measure data collected from:• Tweets
• Blog mentions
• Facebook posts
• Presentations
• News articles
• Shared citations (e.g., Mendeley, CiteULike)
• Data uploads
• Etc.
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BIG DATA
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Relevant for Research Evaluation?
• Datasets
• Conference posters
• Theses & dissertations
• Lectures, online classes
• Software
• “Nanopublications”
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What’s your impact1?
1. Emerald Group Publishing. Impact of Research [11 April 2014]. Available from: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/impact/index.htmhttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/07/14/publishers-measuring-impact/
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Agenda
• Researcher-level altmetrics
• Article-level altmetrics
• Integration into impact reports
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Researcher case study –Heather Piwowar
• h-index: 8
– 23 articles cited 258 times
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25122628200
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Researcher Case Study –Heather Piwowar• Slideshare followers: 85
http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar
• ImpactStory research products: 117http://impactstory.org/HeatherPiwowar
• Figshare views: 1384http://figshare.com/authors/Heather_Piwowar/96399
• GitHub contributions: 1410https://github.com/hpiwowar
• Google Scholar h-index: 13 (51 publications cited 678 times)http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=1YLq0XMAAAAJ&hl=en
• ResearchGate score: 14.33
• Research Gate Impact Points: 50.29https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Piwowar2
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Article Case Study –Marshall 2013
• Web of Science times cited: 1
• Google Scholar times cited: 21
• Scopus times cited: 6
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Article Case Study –Marshall 2013• Altmetric score: 76
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Altmetrics Players
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Integration into Research Report
DEFINITIONSh-indexTheh-indexisbasedonalistofpublicationsrankedindescendingorderbythetimescited.Thevalueofhis
equaltothenumberofpapers(N)inthelistthathaveNormorecitations.Forexample,anh-indexof12indicatesthat
inthedataset,12paperswerecitedatleast12timeseach.
AveragecitationsperpaperSumoftheTimesCiteddividedbythenumberofresultsfound.
Journalactual/expectedcitations.Anaggregateratio:thedenominator(expectedcitations)isthesumoftheexpected
citationsofalljournalsthatthedocumentswerepublishedin.Thenumerator(actualcitations)isthesumofthe
citationcountsofthedocumentsthemselves.Divisionofthesumsyieldsthenumbershown.Aratiogreaterthan1
indicatesthattheauthorscitationcountisbetterthanaverage.
Categoryactual/expectedcitationsAnaggregateratio:thedenominator(expectedcitations)isthesumofthe
expectedcitationsofallcategoriesofjournalsthatthedocumentswerepublishedin.Thenumerator(actualcitations)
isthesumofthecitationcountsofthedocuments.Divisionofthesesumsyieldsthenumbershown.
Highestnumberofcitations.Thisisforaparticulararticleandisthenumberoftimesthatarticlehasbeencitedsince
publication.
ResearchGateScore.RGscoreiscalculatedbasedoncontributionstoReearchGate,theinteractionsandcommentsof
peerresearchers.
HighestAltmetricScore.Altmetricscoreisbasedontheamountofonlineattentionanarticlehasreceived.
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RESEARCHIMPACTSUMMARY
Totalcareerpublications 193
Publicationyears 1990-2013
h-index 30
Averagecitationsperpaper 21.54
Journalactual/expectedcitations(Incites) 1.03
Categoryactual/expectedcitations(Incites) .99
Totalcitations 4232
Highestnumberofcitations 548
RGScore 20.75
HighestAltmetricScore 642
Researcher level altmetric score
Article level altmetric score
Definitions of altmetrics scores
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The Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Robin Featherstone, MLIS@[email protected]
Slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/featherr