An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop
Evanston, IL • 21 June 2012
Program
Keynotes (9:00-10:00)
- Johann Bollen
- Gregg Gordon
Coffee break (10:00-10:30)
Paper presentations (10:30-01:00)
Position and theory papers, 10min each (10:30-11:30)
- Martin Fenner
Altmetrics will be taken personally at PLoS (presentation) - William Gunn and Jan Reichelt
Social metrics for research: quantity and quality (presentation) - Elizabeth Iorns
Reproducibility: an important altmetric - Britt Holbrook
Peer review, altmetrics, and ex ante broader impacts assessment – a proposal - Kelli Barr
The Role of altmetrics and Peer Review in the Democratization of Knowledge (chalkboard notes)
Empirical papers, 15min each (11:30-1:00)
- Judit Bar-Ilan
JASIST@mendeley - Jasleen Kaur and Johan Bollen
Structural Patterns in Online Usage (presentation) - Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Staša Milojević, Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Mike Thelwall
Of caterpillars and butterflies: the life and afterlife of an arXiv e-print - Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar and Bradley Hemminger
Altmetrics in the Wild: Using Social Media to Explore Scholarly Impact (presentation) - Jennifer Lin
A Case Study in Anti-Gaming Mechanisms for Altmetrics: PLoS ALMs and DataTrust (presentation) - Richard Price
Altmetrics and Academia.edu
Lunches on your own (1:00-2:00p)
Demos (2:00-3:00p)
- total-impact (Heather Piwowar)
- altmetric.com (Euan Adie) (presentation)
- PLoS ALM (Martin Fenner)
- Ubiquity Press metrics (Brian Hole)
- Plum Analytics (Andrea Michalek)
- BioMed Central metrics (Ciaran O’Neill)
- Academia.edu (Richard Price)
- Knode (David Steinberg)
- CASRAI (David Baker)
- Mendeley and ReaderMeter (William Gunn)
- Academia.edu (Richard Price)
Group discussion (3:00-4:30p)
We’ll split into small groups to discuss key altmetrics issues; topics may include:
- Gaming: how might it happen, and how do we stop it?
- Standards: We’ve got COUNTER for downloads; should there be standards for other altmetrics? What should they look like?
- Visualization: There’s a lot of data. How should we display it?
- Peer review: Could altmetrics replace traditional peer review? Should it? Can we build new publishing models around altmetrics?
- CVs and “impact dashboards”: What does an altmetrics-informed CV look like? Who wants (and doesn’t want) one?
- Publishers: What do publishers want from altmetrics services? How about readers and authors?
- Normalization: How do we compare metrics from different fields or disciplines?
Group presentations and discussion (4:30-5:30p)
Summing up (5:30-6:00p)
- Conclusion (Summarize key points from live and online discussion)
- Open discussion: what’s the next year of altmetrics look like?
