*Chapter 9: Publish Impact or Perish (Markey) *Altmetrics in the Wild: Using Social Media to Explore Scholarly Impact (Priem/Piwowar) Merton RK (1988) The Matthew Effect in Science, II.
ISIS 79: 606–623.Kuhn T (1977) Second thoughts on paradigms. The essential tension: Selected studies in scientific tradition and change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Bernal JD (1944) The social function of science. George Routledge. 512 p.jasonpriem (2010) I like the term #articlelevelmetrics, but it fails to imply *diversity* of measures. English - Google Scholar Metrics. Journal Metrics: Impact. InCites Journal Citation Reports. *Library Technology Reports: Altmetrics (Roemer and Borchardt) (For jigsaw) SJR : Scientific Journal Rankings. Dimensions (grants, publications, citations, clinical trials, patents and policy documents in one place) Publish or Perish. Anne-Wil Harzing - Sat 6 Feb 2016 16:10 (updated Tue 19 Nov 2019 17:03) Are you applying for tenure, promotion or a new job?
Do you need to prepare for your performance appraisal? *New Grads, Meet New Metrics: Why Early Career Librarians Should Care About Altmetrics & Research Impact. In BriefHow do academic librarians measure their impact on the field of LIS, particularly in light of eventual career goals related to reappointment, promotion, or tenure?
The ambiguity surrounding how to define and measure impact is arguably one of the biggest frustrations that new librarians face, especially if they are interested in producing scholarship outside of traditional publication models. To help address this problem, we seek to introduce early career librarians and other readers to altmetrics, a relatively new concept within the academic landscape that considers web-based methods of sharing and analyzing scholarly information. Altmetric Now Capturing Attention to Books Listed on Amazon – Altmetric. New data offers a more comprehensive view of online sharing and discussion for thousands of books Tuesday 5 September — London, UK — Data science company Altmetric today announced it has started tracking attention to books listed on Amazon, providing further insights into the online discussions and engagement relating to individual titles.
This new capability has already produced huge volumes of attention data – in just a few days Altmetric has found over 145,000 new mentions of 3,000 Amazon-listed books from Twitter, and over 20,000 mentions from other sources such as news, blogs and policy documents. Revisiting: Cooperstown, Ground Zero for Altmetrics. Author’s Note: Many years ago, my boss at the time remarked that if you want to point out a silly argument, all you have to do is to quote it verbatim.
She was both right and wrong, because the silly argument will be believed by those who believe it and mocked by those who don’t. I offer this preface to my 2014 blog post on baseball statistics and altmetrics for anyone who needs a flashing sign that says, “Satire! Intention to Tweet: Medical Study Reports Tweets Improve Citations. Tweeting by a network of journal social media editors increases citations and Altmetric scores, reports a new paper published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Not surprisingly, it is also getting a lot of tweets. The study is based on a randomized controlled trial, in which 112 original research papers were assigned to either the intervention arm (receiving tweets and retweets by members of the journals’ social media network delegates) or no intervention at all. The authors measured each paper’s citations and Altmetric scores after one year. Yet, a closer reading of this paper yields substantive questions and concerns about its veracity, including the source of citations, measured outcomes, and an inability to validate or recreate the dataset. Neither the authors, nor the editorial office, have been willing to explain or defend this paper. Given a lack of response from the authors and limited involvement from the journal’s editorial office, I attempted to recreate the authors’ dataset. What are Altmetrics? - Altmetrics - LibGuides at University of Pittsburgh.
Altmetrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact.
This matters because expressions of scholarship are becoming more diverse. from Defined. Figshare - credit for all your research. What are Altmetrics? ACRL ULS PDC: Beyond Citation Counting: Metrics and Altmetrics for Demonstrating Scholarly Impact. Beyond Citation Counting (Erin Owens/ACRL) Scholarship in the Age of the Internetatron. Academic Libraries (Matt Enis) PLUMBING TECHNOLOGY New platforms from Plum Analytics (top) and Altmetric.com (below) help researchers and librarians aggregate and analyze altmetric data “Altmetrics: A manifesto,” published five years ago this month, described an academic publishing landscape in which the volume of literature was exploding, and the three traditional filters used to help researchers gauge the relative importance of individual papers in their fields—peer review, citation counting, and a journal’s average citations per article—were failing to keep up.
“With altmetrics, we can crowdsource peer review,” they proposed. “Instead of waiting months for two opinions, an article’s impact might be assessed by thousands of conversations and bookmarks in a week.” The Networked Academic. Altmetrics: how librarians can support researchers in improving their… Making Metrics Meaningful. Regular readers may know that I can get cranky at times about our passion for demonstrating value and productivity in quantitative ways that encourage publishing for the sake of publishing, leaving little time for reflection or pursuit of ideas that won’t quickly provide a line for the CV.
So I was a little skeptical when I sat down to read a new book, Meaningful Metrics: A 21st- Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact published by ACRL. Turns out it’s a thoughtful and thorough guide to new and old ways to see what kind of audience a publication gets and how not to abuse those measures.
While it’s addressed to librarians, it would be valuable to any scholar interested in these issues. The subjects covered – impact, bibliometrics, altmetrics, along with some special topics – each get a deep-dive explanation as well “in practice” chapters that explain how things work. What motivated you to write this book? Anything else you'd like to add? Discover the attention surrounding your research – Altmetric. Unpaywall. RHINOHOPPER- Garden-based hub for local jobs & health by Sudeep Motupalli Rao. Kickstarter Collections Projects We Love Trending Nearly Funded Just Launched Everything Categories On Our Radar.
Introduction to Altmetrics - Altmetrics: Measure Research Impact - LibGuides at Oregon State University. Alternative metrics, or Altmetrics, are measures of research impact that supplement citations. Altmetrics measure the wider and societal impacts of scholarly works by tracking how they are discussed, shared, saved, read, and reused by scholars and the public. Altmetrics also expose the contexts that underlie the numbers, so scholars can see not only how often their work is discussed online, but who and what others are saying about it. The Social Web, Altmetrics & Impact: A Scientist's Primer. A beginner's guide to altmetrics. Analytics for Social Media – Activity Metrics. Altmetrics: What they are and why they should matter to the library and information community. Altmetric for librarians. Altmetrics - Research Impact - Research guides at University of Toronto. NISO RP 25 2016 Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project.