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Mike Buschman
Co-founder, Plum Analytics
August 5, 2014
@amichalek | @PlumAnalytics
Altmetrics 101
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Metrics provide a Feedback
Loop
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Redefining:
How Scholarship is Measured
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Current state of
Scholarly Measure
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Journal
Impact Factor
3.161
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Metrics provide a Feedback
Loop
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What impact has our research
had in the past 18 months?
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Researchers have
Moved Online
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Sources of Data Exhaust
• Amazon
• Bit.ly
• CrossRef
• Delicious
• Dryad
• dSpace
• EBSCO
• ePrints
• Figshare
• Github
• Google+
• Medwave
• Mendeley
• PLOS
• PubMed Central
• Research
Blogging
• Scopus
• SlideShare
• SourceForge
• Stack Overflow
• USPTO
• Vimeo
• Wikipedia
• Worldcat
• YouTube
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Metrics Categories
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)
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Changing the focus
COUNTER how much your university uses the collection
Article-level metrics and
PlumX
how much the world uses your research
on metrics
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Metrics provide
a Feedback Loop
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Open Metrics Open Science
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Visualizing Impact: Plum Print
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Group and Researcher
Widgets
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Citations are lagging indicators
• Scopus = 2
• Web of
Science = 0
Scholar = 8
• PubMed = 1
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Photo credit: A. Wayne Vogl and Nicholas D.
Pyenson / Smithsonian Institution.
Research output is
more than articles…
Measure all of it
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Beyond the Journal Article
• Articles
• Blog posts
• Book chapters
• Books
• Cases
• Clinical Trials
• Conference Papers
• Data Sets
• Figures
• Grants
• Interviews
• Letters
• Media
• Patents
• Posters
• Presentations
• Reports
• Source Code
• Theses /
Dissertations
• Videos
• Web Pages
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Books count!
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How does this help me?
Performing Research
Funding Research
Publishing Research
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Given how tight budgets are around
the world, governments are rightfully
demanding effectiveness in the programs
they pay for.
To address these demands, we
need better measurement tools
to determine which approaches
work and which do not.”
Bill Gates
Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2013
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NIH: The Competition for
Research $$$
http://report.nih.gov/NIHDatabook/Charts/Default.aspx?showm=Y&chartId=20&catId=2
4 in 5 people do
NOT get funded
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Who Gets Funded? N
um
ber
of P
roposals
Almost
Always
Funded
Almost
Never
Funded
“Gray Zone” Typically
Funded
Adapted from:
http://nuweb.neu.edu/nhe/insideview%20NSF.pdf
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Metrics provide a Feedback
Loop
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An opportunity for libraries
and the office of research
to work together
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Funders are using PlumX
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Citations are lagging indicators
• Scopus = 2
• Web of
Science = 0
Scholar = 8
• PubMed = 1
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Photo credit: A. Wayne Vogl and Nicholas D.
Pyenson / Smithsonian Institution.
Thank You!
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Citations are lagging indicators
• Scopus = 2
• Web of Science = 0
• Google Scholar = 8
• PubMed = 1
Photo credit: A. Wayne Vogl and Nicholas D.
Pyenson / Smithsonian Institution.
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“Same” Article,
Different Places
