Andy Tattersall @andy_tattersall

Who is behind Altmetrics How you can get involved with using them Talk overview What are Altmetrics Who is behind Altmetrics How you can get involved with using them

Do you use any of these?

And these?

Do you recognise these?

http://www. theguardian http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/19/peer-review-research-impact-altmetrics

Academia is changing forever MOOCs Open Access Impact Big Data Altmetrics

The dissemination and communication of research is changing Presentations and seminars Funding and ethics applications Academic books Journal articles and posters Term papers and essays Meetings and conferences Correspondence Open access Supplementary data Online reference managers Press Post-publication peer-review Social media Blogs

Traditional metrics struggle to reflect this Slow to accrue Focus mostly on published articles Published June 2014: Starting to impact the behaviour of academics

Development of altmetrics (alternative indicators) to complement, not replace traditional metrics help people understand how research is being received and used, and by who not intended as an indicator of quality can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal impact’ give credit for research outputs other than articles

So, what are they?

And who provides them?

What Altmetrics look at

Policy documents AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Food and Agriculture Organization GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mental Health Foundation (UK) - NEW NICE Evidence UNESCO World Health Organization (WHO) More being added each week…

Digging in to the data

Demographics Twitter data from bio’s Mendeley data based on who has saved the article to their library - anonymised

The Altmetric score and donut developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received not an indicator of quality of the research! useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once

Context

Publisher uses

And funders...

Librarian access Free Altmetric Explorer accounts Search for data on any article, from any publisher Share with researchers or admins

Altmetric for Institutions

Explore your institution

Reporting save search filters set up automated email alerts export to excel, or reports on individual articles API output set up direct links into other systems

Who can use the data?

Institutional repositories free donut badge embeds just 2 lines of code: api.altmetric.com helps encourage deposits collates attention from all versions info@altmetric.com

Researchers altmetric.it

Details pages alerts

Impact Story

Kudos

Metrics Categories USAGE CAPTURES MENTIONS SOCIAL MEDIA CITATIONS (clicks, downloads, views, library holdings, video plays) CAPTURES (bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers) MENTIONS (blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links) SOCIAL MEDIA (+1s, likes, shares, tweets) CITATIONS (PubMed Central, Scopus, patents)

Concerns about gaming and misinterpretation All of Altmetric.com’s data is auditable They don’t show things like Facebook likes Systems in place to flag up suspect activity

The research process Measure and discuss the research Have an idea Search for research Publish and disseminate the research Filter and review the research

The research process and you LIS Professionals experts in measurement, bibliometrics, work in neutral role LIS Professionals host, catalogue and search published research Measure and discuss the research Have an idea Search for research Publish and disseminate the research Filter and review the research LIS Professionals experts in publishing and communication. OA, Social Media, blogging LIS Professionals carry out systematic and literature reviews from search results

Where the LIS professional fits in Searching Appraising Filtering Impartial Flexible Helpful Networked Centrally based Indexing Communications Technologist Social Media Bibliometrics

''All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move''. Benjamin Franklin

Getting academics to the waterhole Images CC BY Whatleydude http://bit.ly/1wPc0my Kyknoord http://bit.ly/1wgTLZ8

#Understand Their way of working - long periods doing the same thing Their concerns Pressure to publish research Their fears May not be used to Social Media or technology for that matter How busy they are What they can get out of Altmetrics and what you can do to help them Image CC BY Glen Edelson http://bit.ly/1o3tFb8

#Demystify Explain that Altmetrics are not about Justin Bieber’s Tweets to his Beliebers That using tools like Altmetrics, Mendeley, Twitter and ImpactStory will show them where their research is reaching globally Help build case studies to show what is out there Show junior researchers and students that their research and profile will benefit Image CC BY Sarah http://bit.ly/ZyiXxw

#Train Bite size sessions Workshops Image CC BY Sarah Video tutorials Webinars Hangouts Image CC BY Sarah http://bit.ly/ZyiXxw Image CC BY Michael Young http://bit.ly/Zyk2Wh

#Champion Look to see who on your campus uses technology and social media Take them for a coffee Get them to present a session on how they use it Image CC BY edwin.11 http://bit.ly/1ufH2kP

#Network Seek out natural allies Impact and research support, open access advocates, MOOCsters, library and information professionals, technicians, learning technologists, communications and marketing Image CC BY Bruno Girin http://bit.ly/1zeQnlc

#Practice

New era for peer review?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/ (Last Accessed 14/10/2014)

https://theconversation.com/profiles/tom-stafford-91781/articles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

Thank you @andy_tattersall Thanks to @catherinelucy at Altmetric.com for use of slides 8-34.