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Presentation given to the Alberta Research Center for Health Evidence (ARCHE) on July 22, 2014.
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Robin Featherstone, MLISResearch Librarian, Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence@rmfeatherstonehttp://www.slideshare.net/featherr
Altmetrics for research : impact measurement & #hcsm
http://www.ualberta.ca/ARCHE/@arche4evidence
Summer 2014
Conflict of interest disclosure• I have had free access to the
Altmetric.com Explorer since September 2013
Altmetrics…
[…] capture ways in which articles are disseminated throughout the expanding scholarly ecosystem, and reach beyond the scope of traditional trackers and filters.1
[…] measure research impact by including references outside of traditional scholarly publishing.2
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.
Altmetric tools measure data collected from:• Tweets• Blog mentions• Facebook posts• Presentations• News articles• Shared citations (e.g., Mendeley,
CiteULike)• Data uploads• Etc.
BIG DATA
What’s your impact3?
3. 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/
Agenda• Researcher & article case studies• Altmetric products• Measurable mentions & unique IDs• Gaming the system• Altmetric research• Altmetrics for biomedical and health
sciences• Future directions
Researcher case study – Heather Piwowar
• h-index: 9 – 23 articles cited 280 times
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=25122628200
Researcher Case Study – Heather Piwowar• 40 Slideshares 88 followers
http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar
• 107 ImpactStory research productshttp://impactstory.org/HeatherPiwowar
• 1469 Figshare viewshttp://figshare.com/authors/Heather_Piwowar/96399
• 1812 GitHub contributionshttps://github.com/hpiwowar
• 52 Google Scholar publications cited 762 times http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=1YLq0XMAAAAJ&hl=en
• ResearchGate score: 15.31• Research Gate Impact Points: 50.29
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Piwowar2
Article Case Study – Carlisle 2014
• Web of Science times cited: 1• Google Scholar times cited: 1• Scopus times cited: 1
Article Case Study – Carlisle 2014• Altmetric score: 134.15
Altmetrics Players
Q: Which twitter post will be counted by altmetrics measurement instruments?
A. Great review on pet ownership for children with autism by Gretchen Carlisle
B. Great review by @gretchgretch15 on pet ownership - #autism
C. Great review - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2013.09.005
What is gaming? • Alice has a new paper out. She asks those
grad students of hers who blog to write about it.
• Alice has a new paper out. She believes that it contains important information for diabetes patients and so signs up to a ’100 retweets for $$$’ service.
5. Case examples from: Adie, E. Gaming Altmetrics. [29 April 2014]. Available from http://www.altmetric.com/blog/gaming-altmetrics/
Auto-spamming
Spectrum of social media self-promotion
6. Adie, E. Gaming Altmetrics. [29 April 2014]. Available from http://www.altmetric.com/blog/gaming-altmetrics/
Altmetrics research• PLOS Altmetrics Collection: http://
www.ploscollections.org/altmetrics
• Many studies compared altmetrics with citation counts and Impact Factors
• Positive but weak correlations found
Altmetrics in the health sciences• ‘Biomedical and health sciences’
showed highest share of publications with Altmetric.com scores7
• Increasing numbers of PubMed citations were being tweeted8
2010 2.4%2011 10.9%2012 20.4%
7. Costas R, Zahedi Z, Wouters P. Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective. arXiv preprint arXiv:14014321. 2014.8. Haustein S, Peters I, Sugimoto CR, Thelwall M, Larivière V. Tweeting biomedicine: An analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2013.
Social Media and health• Used for:– Health promotion9, 10
– Education11
– Communication and knowledge sharing12
9. Williams G, Hamm MP, Shulhan J, Vandermeer B, Hartling L. Social media interventions for diet and exercise behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Open. 2014;4(2). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003926.10. Hamm MP, Chisholm A, Shulhan J, Milne A, Scott SD, Given LM, et al. Social media use among patients and caregivers: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 2013;3(5). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002819.11. Hamm MP, Klassen TP, Scott SD, Moher D, Hartling L. Education in Health Research Methodology: Use of a Wiki for Knowledge Translation. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(5):e64922. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064922.12. Hamm MP, Chisholm A, Shulhan J, Milne A, Scott SD, Klassen TP, et al. Social media use by health care professionals and trainees: a scoping review. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2013;88(9):1376-83. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31829eb91c.
Rank Score Article Title Year Journal
1 1350 Early Television Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems in Children
2004 Pediatrics
2 558 Do Television and Electronic Games Predict Children’s Psychosocial Adjustment? Longitudinal Research Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study
2013 Archives of Disease in Childhood
3 521 Microbial Contamination of Human Milk Purchased via the Internet
2013 Pediatrics
4 457 Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion: A Randomized Trial
2014 Pediatrics
5 383 Gun Violence Trends in Movies 2013 Pediatrics
Using Altmetrics.com rankings– Pediatric Journals
Using Altmetrics.com rankings- ARCHE publications
Future Directions – Publisher-driven altmetrics
Future Directions –Product development• Increase transparency of self-promotion
activites• Implement anti-spamming/anti-gaming
software solutions
Future Directions – Standards development
Future Directions – Research• Is there a correlation between altmetrics
rankings and…– full-text downloads?– qualitative measures of interest? – …
Future Directions - Assessment• Will be used by: – funding agencies– research centres– Knowledge Translation (KT) researchers
Future Directions
The Alberta Research Centre for Health EvidenceEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Robin Featherstone, MLIS@[email protected]
Slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/featherr