1. Crowdsourcing Real-Time Impact Factors and a Semantic Research Database Victor Henning Mendeley

2. Science progresses funeral by funeral. Max Planck The entire history of science in the last 50 years could be written in terms of papers rejected by Science and Nature. Paul Lauterbur

3. This talk is about post-publication quality measurements.

4. The current Gold Standard, the Impact Factor: extremely skewed distribution wrong incentives to researchers (target only high-impact journals, bite-sized papers, citation bartering) and editors (encouraging self-citations, review articles) studies find that only 20% of papers cited have actually been read arbitrary time window favours fast-evolving disciplines Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, Vol. 8, 2008

5. Analogy in music: Scrobbling tracks Article usage metrics

6. works like this: 1) Install Audioscrobbler 2) Listen to music 3) Last.fm builds your music profile... and the worlds biggest open music database

10. Why not build the same system for science? Track article pervasiveness in reference manager libraries Track article reading time in PDF viewers Track user tags and ratings Key difference: preserve privacy

11. 2) Manage your research papers 1) Install Mendeley Desktop Automatic data extraction External database integration Automatic bibliography generation Tagging and annotation Mendeley works like this:

12. 2) Manage your research papers 1) Install Mendeley Desktop 3) Mendeley aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley works like this:

13. Were aggregating a crowdsourced research database with a unique layer of social & real-time usage stats.

14. 11m research papers (and 217m references) uploaded: After 12 months in public beta (version 0.9):

15. Top 20 institutions using Mendeley: University of Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London Harvard University University of Edinburgh University of Michigan University of Oxford University College London UC Berkeley Max Planck Society Cornell University University of Wisconsin RWTH Aachen Columbia University Princeton University University of Cologne Yale University University of Dundee University of Florida After 12 months in public beta (version 0.9):

16. 3. Top articles of 2009 by readership on Mendeley 1.2.

17. Correlation between ISI Citations and Mendeley Readership for ISIs Top Five Biology Papers 2009

18. Journal aggregate stats:

19. Dr. Peter Binfield, Public Library of Science: Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com Journal aggregate stats:

21. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same method... Result: A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database

22. www.mendeley.com