Altmetrics: Analysis of Library and Information Science (LIS) Research in the Social Media Ifeanyi J. Ezema (Ph.D) Paper Presented at the 1st International Conference and Home Coming of the Department of Library and Information Science University of Nigeria Nsukka. 25 – 30 June 2017

Introduction Traditionally research evaluation is determined using citation counts ISI Web of Science, Scopus Google scholar h-index impact factors G-index I10 -index

Weakness of Bibliometric Indicators Narrow coverage of journals Indicators are skewed against some fields of study Measures scholarly impact only Manipulation of the indicators by authors and publishers Time lag for accumulation of citations

Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

Altmetrics: What does it mean? Alterative metrics for research evaluation determination of social impact of journal publications (Priem & Memminger 2010; Konkiel 2013) “new measurement for the impact of scholarly content, based on how far and wide it travels through the social Web (like Twitter), social bookmarking (e.g. CiteUlike) and collaboration such as Mendeley)…” (Galligan 2012)

Sources of Altmetrics indicators News outlets (over 1300 sites manually curetted list); text mining Social media – Twitter, Facebook, google+, etc Post publication peer review like publons, pubpeer Reference Manager – mendeley, CiteUlike, etc Policy documents Others like Wikipedia, Youtube, Reddit, F1000 prime, Pininterest Q&A

Objectives of the Study To identify LIS journals with high social media attention To determine the most used social media tools for sharing LIS research To compare the performance of LIS journals using counts and social media attention To determine the correlation between citation counts and social media attention in LIS research.

Methods The study adopted descriptive informetric approach Eight-five LIS journals indexed by ISI Web of Science were used for the study Data was extracted from Web of Science JCR and altemetric.com for social media attention to Microsoft excel for analysis The findings were analyzed using frequency and percentages and presented in tables and charts

Rank list of LIS Journals with high Social Media Attention Findings Rank list of LIS Journals with high Social Media Attention S/N Journals News stories Tweets Facebook Blog posts Google+ Reddit F1000 review Altmetrics Citations 1 Journal of the American Medical Informatics 469 12846 235 118 11 10 26535 6622 2 Scientometrics 84 6606 189 309 83 3 7275 6436 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 516 4259 165 146 71 25 5182 3160 4 Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 34 4275 62 37 4529 453 5 Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 26 3688 103 188 31 4038 6148 6 Journal of Health Communication 312 2764 109 69 3264 2851 7 Learned Publishing 18 2693 40 164 2954 258 8 Journal of Informetrics 2639 86 88 43 2897 1458 9 College & Research Libraries 2374 162 85 45 2672 715 Journal of the Medical Library Association 50 1913 141 105 15 2226 770 Journal of Academic Librarianship 1755 70 95 1923 827 12 Health Information and Library Journal 1838 38 20 1911 544 13 Social Science Computer Review 1175 32 1302 969 14 Journal of Information Science 1076 30 1192 1216 Research Evaluation 1103 24 1156 740

Performance of High Impact Journals in the Social Media S/N Journals News stories Tweets Facebook Blog posts Google+ Reddit F1000 review Total Total cites 1 MIS Quarterly 2 17 5 27 11320 Journal of Information Technology 3 348 13 372 1695 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 516 4259 165 146 71 25 5182 3160 4 Journal of American medical informatics 469 12846 235 118 11 10 26535 6622 Information Systems Research 134 386 52 23 607 5175 6 Journal of Management Information Systems 45 63 117 3818 7 European Journal of Information Systems 178 191 1981 8 International Journal of Information Management 726 28 769 1937 9 Journal of Strategic Information Systems 119 16 137 1159 Information Systems Journal 47 172 20 253 1052 Government Information Quarterly 941 29 991 1580 12 Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 26 3688 103 188 31 4038 6148 Journal of Informetrics 37 2639 86 88 43 2897 1458 14 Telematics and Informatics 542 627 649 15 International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 243 50 342 518

Social Media Attention & Citations

Performance of the Social Media Tools in Sharing LIS Research No Percentage Average 1 News stories 2114 2.5 24.9 2 Tweets 65195 76.3 767.0 3 Facebook posts 14891 17.4 175.2 4 Blog posts 2427 2.8 28.6 5 Google+ 771 1.0 9.1 6 Reddit 80 0.09 0.9 7 F1000 Review 15 0.02 0.2 Total 85493

Social media tools used in sharing LIS research

Correlation matrix of citations and social media attention Altmetrics Citations Pearson Correlation 1 .450** Sig. (2-tailed) .000 N 85

Interpretation of the correlation test The result of the correlations shows that journal citations have a moderate significant positive correlation with social media attention in LIS research (r = 0.450, p < 0.05) Therefore social media attention is a good indicator of measuring impact of LIS research

Major Findings 15 LIS journals met the average social media attention and therefore, have the most altmetric attention. Tweets and Facebook posts are the most used social media tool for sharing LIS research. Some LIS journals have high citation impact but with low altmetric attention. There is a moderate significant positive correlation between journal citations and social media attention in LIS research

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