Practical applications for altmetrics in a changing metrics landscape

Editor's Notes

• #2: Welcome Attendees. We’ll be taking a look at how Altmetric can help researchers, departments and institutions evaluate their research impact in a timely and comprehensive manner. Running time of 30 mins, plus questions at the end. Use the raise the hand feature for asking questions. Please feel free to ask questions via the Q&A feature. Please also use this for any audio issues you may have. Lets get started
• #8: Not only that, but impact factors and citation counts are very laggy. Take several years to accrue -Don’t tell the whole story Provide only part of the impact profile of your research
• #10: As this gap has become wider, funders are now noticing that judging impact of research funded by them requires new tools, and the monitoring of new platforms. Need more evidence about attention their work is receiving Is funding going towards engaging work? What other areas are getting traction within alternative metrics? What are particular other funders getting traction with? Can new avenues for funding be approached, or engaged with?
• #13: Altmetric is data science company Why
• #14: What are “altmetrics”? “alternative metrics” new ways of measuring different, non-traditional forms of impact. “alternative to only using citations”, not “alternative to citations”. complementary to traditional citation-based analysis. Article-level metrics have come to refer to any metrics (e.g., including altmetrics) that surround a scholarly article.
• #23: Altmetric has also been rapidly adopted as the industry standard amongst publishers for demonstrating article impact on their web pages. Publishers display our badges and widgets on abstract pages to show overall impact, and easily link users to the news, conversations and commentary happening right now for their articles. Marketing materials/driving sales strategy/reporting to editorial boards Your researchers are already seeing our data and visualisations on a lot of articles, becoming insterested in and familiar with the idea of altmetrics
• #24: Altmetric has also been rapidly adopted as the industry standard amongst publishers for demonstrating article impact on their web pages. Publishers display our badges and widgets on abstract pages to show overall impact, and easily link users to the news, conversations and commentary happening right now for their articles. Marketing materials/driving sales strategy/reporting to editorial boards Your researchers are already seeing our data and visualisations on a lot of articles, becoming insterested in and familiar with the idea of altmetrics
• #25: Altmetric supports the altmetrics community. Providers like Kudos and Impactstory feature Altmetric data within their own data.
• #28: Get sussex screenshot The integration of altmetric badges in a discovery service allows the user a deep-dove onto the interactions a result has had. Integration works with anything with an identifier altmetric supports. Lots of institutions are already using our data, and we’ll come to AFI later
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• #61: Introduce yourself and your two postings
• #62: This is what sent me looking at altmetric data in the first place….
• #63: Brief explanation of what it is and what you’re asked to do…
• #64: A researcher from Duke started using the Bookmarklet when a former student sent it to her telling her“this is ultra cool.” It’s basically a free bookmark you add to your browser that shows you altmetric data for any article with an identifier IF it has attention. Basically visit altmetric.it (CLICK) drag and drop the bookmark into your toolbar (CLICK arrow appears) Visit any article of your choice CLICK (EST article popsup) CLICK (Red circle pops up) Click on the bookmark and the article details drop down as you see here. CLICK (Red arrow appears) If you click on “Click for more details” then you get (CLICK and details page appears) you get the details for each mention specified in the donut. You can read every news mention, policy document mention, blog post, or tweet. And this tool is totally free at altmetric.it
• #65: But I thought, there has got to be a way to summarize impact across ALL of the publications from a lab, or all from a funded project. I’d also like to be able to see one set of altmetrics covering all the publications on the CV of scientists applying for a job in my department. So, I sent Altmetrics a question: How do I see my research in aggregate – this brought me to Sara
• #66: This is the summary report for the 82 articles of mine that had attention. I had a total of 2933mentions across all those different sources. Source that I had NO idea covered me, including 109 mentions and mentions in three different policy documents. She also could show interesting spikes in attention over the time period of the articles I provided. The two big ones correlate with major papers I published at the time. Bthe massive amount of twitter data also really surprised. Altmetric allows you to read every single mention so I was able to read every news article that mentioned my work and every policy document. Even every tweet! I have never been a twitter user but all this attention made me think maybe I should approach this kind of exposure differently.
• #67: Little did I know that my research was being used in policy recommendations by two different UK organizations, Mental Health Foundation – a mental health research and policy charity as well as the UK government. If I wanted to make a case for broader impact, this is bona fide data demonstrating that practitioners – not researchers – but folks who can affect lives through legislation, health care, and education, are using my research to better their work.
• #68: Similarly I had no idea about the scope of news coverage and how much of the coverage around my work was international. 6 of my top 10 papers had international news coverage.
• #69: Similarly I wasn’t aware how large and active the health and psychaitry blog community is. Resaerchers, doctors, patients and the general public are actively using blogs as ways to learn more, disseminate findings and find solutions to debilatating mental illness effecting every day lives.
• #70: Twitter itself astonished me.I had no idea that non researchers were looking at my work. The twitter data allowed me to see that real practitioners – folks who might actually make decisions based on my research – were reading and commenting on my work.
• #71: This graph shows the upward bound of twitter reach (that is the maximum # of followers that might have potentially seen the tweet) for my top ten most attention drawing articles. ‘ I had no idea about the impact of twitter in terms of reach and how many potential new audiences including journalists, bloggers, the newsmedia, practictioners, and legislators could see my work . A recent piece of research out of the university of wisconsin – called building buzz – makes the case that coverage in news media and twitter is notto be underestimated as crucial outlets for getting ones work out to the general public. I have asked my studentsand postdocs to work a on a strategy surrounding twitter to continue these positive trends.