Altmetrics at Altitude: Attaining Higher Ground

Joseph Kraus

University of Denver

For the RMSLA Membership meeting, October 29, 2014

I am going to put this online at URL, so you don’t have to take prodigious notes.

Anyone want to be the Google Jockey?

Note:

Today, we are going to cover:

What, who, when, where, why, and how

Altmetrics

What the heck is it?

Altmetrics – What?

Article-Level Metrics

Artifact-Level Metrics

Other terms

Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar, Stacy Konkiel (ImpactStory)

Martin Fenner (PLOS) William Gunn (Mendeley) Euan Adie (Altmetric) Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman

(Plum Analytics)

Altmetrics – Who?

http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/building-skyscrapers-with-our-scholarship

Other interested parties

NISO

Publishers

Librarians/Information Professionals

Readers

Policy makers

Altmetrics – Who?

Right now and into the future.

Altmetrics – When?

Any place where people care about metrics

Such as administrators. Are there any who do not?

San Francisco - Mention DORA

Altmetrics – Where?

Because Reasons!

Altmetrics – Why?

Concerning social media, “there is a danger that this form of com-munication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices.”

Altmetrics – Why?

“‘Let's laugh at those silly scientists doing social media outreach when they should be writing papers!’ The K-index trivialises those of us who work hard to communicate science with the public.”

Altmetrics – Why?

“Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'

Altmetrics – Why?

Publish or perish culture Where (and how often) one publishes

should not be the main concern Evaluate the quality of the work Some organizations have vowed to say

that the journal name is not under consideration

Altmetrics – Why?

Broader Impacts Review Criterion

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07046/nsf07046.jsp

“Broaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technological understanding, for example, by presenting results of research and education projects in formats useful to students, scientists and engineers, members of Congress, teachers, and the general public.”

Altmetrics – Why?

ImpactStory https://impactstory.org/JosephKraus

Plum Analytics

Pitt

Altmetric For Institutions

Bookmarklet

Altmetrics – How?

From the publisher

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046150

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6208/1253596.full

Altmetrics – How?

Who said or wrote:

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

Pop Quiz

Questions?

http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/

http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/6/292.full

http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/altmetrics

For further reading

Library Journal article on Plum by Bonnie Swoger

https://www.diigo.com/user/jokrausdu/altmetrics

Follow #altmetrics on Twitter http://www.mendeley.com/groups/586

171/altmetrics/

More further reading

Found some in Google Images, “labeled for reuse with modification” or Flickr with 2 different CC licenses

Raised hands http://www.ok.gov/abletech/images/Classroom-FourthGraders.jpg via http://www.ok.gov/abletech/Special_Education_Resolution_Center/

https://twitter.com/IanMulvany/status/425006889949495296

Image credits

Human pyramid http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobaltfish/9614174604/ CC-BY-SA.

Elevator http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodudedan/448988655/ CC-BY 2.0

Image credits