Journal Metrics: Research analytics redefined | Home. With 2013 journal rankings, no one metric rules them all. Elizabeth Dyas Since the start of bibliometrics in the 1960s, the scientometrics community has grown increasingly more interested in the investigation and assessment of publication impact. Over the past decade, research groups have furnished alternative metrics to address some of the new needs of the scientific community, such as the ability to compare journals from different subject areas. In addition to journal impact, bibliometrics and other data-driven measures are increasingly used to systematically compare and benchmark diverse entities in a variety of settings. When evaluating the performance of a journal, the researcher community benefits from a broad range of metrics to better understand performance.
Also, it's impossible for one metric to serve all the necessary purposes. This holds true for journal and article-level metrics as well as at the individual or institutional level of assessment. Learn more about Scopus at elsevier.com/scopus. A brief history of altmetrics. Got Altmetric? Wiley does! July 10, 2014 This week, Wiley announced the adoption of Altmetric for all of its 1500+ journals on Wiley Online Library.
Following a six-month pilot of Altmetric last year for their open access journals, Wiley conducted a survey of their end-users. Among the positive feedback that helped them make the decision to adopt Altmetric across all journals, 77% of respondents felt that article metrics enhance the value of a journal article and 87% responded that they felt article metrics help them gauge the popularity of a journal article. Altmetric will now be offered to their communities of readers and researchers. As a result, they've launched an unofficial “Almetric week” this week. This past Tuesday (launch day) started with a….donut (both the breakfast and the Altmetric variety).
At the same time, there is a major Twitter campaign underway to spread word of this new partnership. Don’t forget to spread the word that Altmetric is now available across all Wiley journals! Altmetrics may be able to help in evaluating societal reach, but research significance must be peer reviewed. Social media indicators of scholarly communication, or commonly referenced as altmetrics, are still far from being adopted as part of everyday research evaluation, but they already have stated value in indicating what is interesting and popular.
Kim Holmberg argues these indicators have exciting potential for measuring the impact of public outreach. But further research is necessary to fully understand their value and possible applications. Where do we draw the line between promoting our own work and gaming the altmetrics? Scholarly communication is the process that starts with a research idea and ends with a formal scientific publication that through peer review is accepted as part of scientific knowledge. But on the web and especially in social media scientific output and scientific products can be acknowledged in many other ways than through formal citations; scientific articles can be mentioned on Twitter, liked on Facebook, bookmarked on Mendeley, or commented in blogs. Dr. Twitter and traditional bibliometrics are separate but complementary aspects of research impact. In a recent study, Haustein and colleagues found a weak correlation between the number of times a paper is tweeted about and subsequent citations.
But the study also found papers from 2012 were tweeted about ten times more than papers from 2010. Emily Darling discusses the results and finds that while altmetrics may do a poor job at predicting the traditional success of scholarly articles, it is becoming increasingly apparent that research can contribute to both scientific and social outcomes. Altmetrics and bibliometrics are two important complements for how we measure and value our science and both are needed to help us shout about it. Scientists are increasingly turning to social media to publicise their research. Image credit: Esther Vargas (CC BY-SA) The study’s authors, led by Stefanie Haustein of the University of Montréal, tracked more than 1.4 million biomedical science articles published between 2010 and 2012. Social value Scientists should keep tweeting about papers. PlumX and EBSCO Databases | Plum Analytics Research Impact. "Including the usage statistics from EBSCO databases was a logical step because of our relationship but also because we can now gather statistics on millions of articles from more than 280 EBSCOhost databases and the EBSCO Discovery Service used worldwide.
" IPSWICH, Mass. — June 23, 2014 — Metrics from Plum™ Analytics will now include usage statistics for articles and books that are available from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) databases and EBSCO Discovery Service. The article-level data from these databases will allow Plum Analytics’ product PlumX to provide usage statistics on articles and books from tens of thousands of providers. This collaboration marks the first time the wealth of information about the actual usage per article such as abstract views, downloads, etc. can be measured across publishers. Oliver Pesch, EBSCO Chief Product Strategist, says that including the usage statistics from EBSCO databases will provide valuable insight. For more information, please contact: The Altmetric Bookmarklet - Altmetric.
More details on how to get started To install the Bookmarklet, just drag it into your browser's bookmark bar - this is typically underneath the address bar. All set? Great, take it for a spin! Here are some example articles to try it out on. See the Bookmarklet in action Troubleshooting Nothing happening when you drag the link? If you can't see a bookmark bar on Firefox, go to the View -> Toolbars menu and check Bookmarks Toolbar. Need more help? Image uploaded by @library_connect. "Indexing Repository Content in Google Scholar" by Darcy Dapra. Description How does Google Scholar connect researchers with information? Hint: It’s not just about robots and algorithms; it's really about people and words.
Google has created a powerful academic discovery tool by cultivating partnerships with the people who use it: the students, faculty, researchers, and writers who are looking for scholarly resources, and the publishers, librarians, and institutional repository administrators who provide them. In this webinar, Darcy Dapra, Partner Manager at Google Scholar, talks about how you can put Google to work for your repository, increase visibility for your scholarly research, and help you connect scholars with the resources they’re looking for.
On the agenda: How indexing in Google Scholar works What types of content are included What you can do to improve your content’s visibility in search Darcy also discusses best practices for collecting metadata, explores some use cases, and responds to your questions. 8 surprising things I learnt about Google Scholar. Google Scholar is increasingly becoming a subject that an academic librarian cannot afford to be ignorant about. Of course, researchers including librarians have taken note of this and there is intense interest in details about Google Scholar. I noticed for example in April.... Top 10 “Hot” Articles in Library and Information Science, April 2014 - 5 out of 10 about google scholar. — Aaron Tay (@aarontay) April 13, 2014 Recently, I've been fortunate to be able to encounter and study Google Scholar from different angles at work including b) Work on bibliometrics team - lead me to study the strengths and weakness of Google Scholar and related services such as Google Citations and Google Scholar Metrics vs Web of Science/Scopus as a citation tool. c) Most recently, I've was studying a little how entries in our Institutional repositories were indexed and displayed in Google Scholar. 1.
This also reflects the way we present Google Scholar to students. 2. 3. 4. Eg. 5. Why? 6. An ATG Original: New Platform Released—Altmetric for Institutions | Against-the-Grain.com. New Platform Released—Altmetric for Institutions By Paula J. Hane Altmetrics (alternative metrics) emerged in 2010 as a new category of scholarly impact measurement. Since then it has become “a fluid area of research and practice, in which various alternative and traditional measures of personal and scholarly impact can be explored and compared simultaneously.” A review of the growth in altmetrics in January 2014 by librarians Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt mentioned some key developments. For example, Public Library of Science (PLoS) was one of the first journals to give its authors access to article-level metrics, while Mendeley, an altmetrics-enabled citation management and networking tool, offers unique data regarding article readership to users.
Almetric -ScopusClick on image to enlarge There continues to be a lot of activity recently in this area, with interesting competitive and cooperative interactions among some of the altmetric providers. Altmetric for Institutions J. Momentum for Article-Level Metrics: New Uses. The visibility of a research paper extends beyond the journal in which the paper appears, and today includes press coverage, discussion boards, blog posts, post-publication reference managers and downloads. To best represent the visibility and influence of individual articles, the scientific community is turning toward article-level metrics, which in the broadest sense are metrics that apply at the article level rather than the journal level.
The field has rapidly expanded, and in addition to the more academic tracking related to citation and downloads, there is now the ability to track the more social aspects of how articles are used, shared and discussed whether via CiteULike, Facebook or Twitter. Article-level metrics provide granular information on how individual articles are used. Article-level metrics in practice currently come in two flavors: ALMs and altmetrics. Authors Engage Publishers Respond PLOS was one of the earliest publishers to offer ALMs on all articles. Press Release - Altmetric. London, UK and Boston, USA - 12 June 2014 - Alternative metrics provider Altmetric today announced the release of Altmetric for Institutions, a web-based software application that enables higher educational institutions to track and evaluate the online dissemination and impact of their authored research. Altmetric collates mentions of scholarly articles across traditional and social media, blog posts, reference management tools and post-publication peer review sites.
In addition to these established sources the data will now also reflect if an article has been cited or mentioned in public policy documents, offering a much needed insight into the real-life application of research. Incorporating advanced search and filtering functionality, Altmetric for Institutions offers librarians, research administrators, communication officers and faculty themselves an easy and intuitive way of monitoring and reporting on the online attention surrounding individual articles. Ten reasons you should put altmetrics on your CV right now | Impactstory blog.
If you don’t include altmetrics on your CV, you’re missing out in a big way. There are many benefits to scholars and scholarship when altmetrics are embedded in a CV. Altmetrics can: provide additional information;de-emphasize inappropriate metrics;uncover the impact of just-published work;legitimize all types of scholarly products;recognize diverse impact flavors;reward effective efforts to facilitate reuse;encourage a focus on public engagement;facilitate qualitative exploration;empower publication choice; andspur innovation in research evaluation.
In this post, we’ll detail why these benefits are important to your career, and also recommend the ways you should–and shouldn’t–include altmetrics in your CV. 1. Altmetrics provide additional information The most obvious benefit of including altmetrics on a CV is that you’re providing more information than your CV’s readers already have. 2. It’s generally regarded as poor form to evaluate an article based on a journal title or impact factor. LC_ResearchImpact_infographic.pdf. 14: expanding impacts and metrics. An ACM Web Science Conference 2014 Workshop News Keynotes Accepted Papers Alperin, Juan Pablo (2014): Exploring altmetrics in an emerging country context. figshare. Judit (2014): JASIST@Mendeley Revisited. Carpenter, Nettie Lagace and Martin Fenner. Schedule About the Workshop Altmetrics intend to measure scholarly impact that is not necessarily captured by traditional, citation based metrics.
The goal of this year’s workshop is to provide a platform to present scholarly research related to altmetrics. The workshop invites contributions on altmetrics research with particular focus on the following topics: This workshop is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 and altmetrics12 workshops held at previous ACM Web Science conferences (Koblenz, 2011 & Evanston, 2012). Important Dates Submissions Accepted submissions should be uploaded to figshare, to be linked to the workshop website.
Altmetrics in libraries and institutional repositories. We get asked a lot about the use of Altmetric data by academic libraries and institutional repositories so I figured it was worth outlining the services we offer and extending an invite to have a chat to anybody else who is curious – we’re always happy to hear your thoughts on altmetrics in general and to give talks or demos. You can reach me directly at euan@altmetric.com. (for an overview of the potential uses of alt-metrics by libraries that includes reviews of other tools check out Stacey Konkiel’s awesome Altmetrics: An App Review slides or view the video of her talk here) Explorer access – free for individual librarians, paid site licenses for researchers If you’re a librarian at an academic institution we’d love for you to sign up for a free librarian account for the Altmetric Explorer, our analysis and discovery tool.
Just drop us a line at support@altmetric.com using your institutional email address and we’ll get you set up with a login and a quick demo, if desired. Research assessment, altmetrics and tools for determining impact: Reading list for #HEFCEmetrics review launch. Altmetrics & research libraries.