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  • Altmetrics, another view on impact Wouter Gerritsma, April 2014
  • Altmetrics?  New suit of metrics introduced by Priem et al. 2010 http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/ ● A better filter and an alternative to citations and peer review  Other terms: ● Article level metrics ● Influmetrics ● Social media metrics
  • Article level metrics?
  • Altmetrics promises  A proxy for scientific impact ● More timely than citations  Broader impact than measured by citations only ● Societal impact  Impact of more varied outputs ● Capturing impacts of other publication types ● Measuring other scientific outputs (data sets, ELN, code) ● Measuring other forms of influence (press, blogs, twitter etc.)
  • Citations are only a tiny fraction of article usage Source: Cave 2012
  • Relationship between #Articlelevelmetrics #Altmetrics and Journal level metrics Source: @IanMulvany https://twitter.com/IanMulvany/status/424904870643384320
  • Citations versus social media uptake Source: Haustein, 2013
  • Proportion of articles covered by source Metrics for 61,610 PLoS journal articles published until October 9, 2012 Source: Cave 2012
  • Some of the players
  • What publishers are doing PLOS
  • What publishers are doing PLOS Nature
  • Scopus
  • What the library is doing
  • What the library is doing
  • What the library is doing
  • What the library is doing
  • What the library is going to do  Add more DOI's to publications in the repository ● DOI from publishers ● Issuing DOI's for our own publications (theses, reports)  Implementing Altmetric add-in in the repository ● Collect and aggregate altmetrics to person and group level  Implement PLoS ALM api  Watch the developments
  • What you can do!  Make and ORCID ● Use the Scopus2ORCID tool http://orcid.scopusfeedback.com/  Make a Google Scholar profile  Connect these to Impact Story  Start a Mendeley account
  • With some reservations
  • References Cave, R. 2012. Article impact. Charleston Conference, November 7, 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/rcave/article-impact-alm-and-altmetrics Haustein, S. 2013. Disciplinary differences and other biases : Exploring social media metrics in scholarly context Presentation at NISO webinar on altmetrics on November 13, 2013. http://www.slideshare.net/StefanieHaustein/haustein- niso-webinar131113-28717635 Piwowar, H. 2013. Altmetrics: Value all research products. Nature, 493(7431): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/493159a
  • Thank you! http://impactstory.org/wowter http://viaf.org/viaf/285392263/ http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7274-0698 http://www.isni.org/0000000391572292 http://wu.academia.edu/WouterGerritsma http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4161-2008 http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/wouter-gerritsma http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wouter_Gerritsma http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3iDBE-MAAAAJ http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/34373815 http://www.narcis.nl/person/info:eu-repo/dai/nl/33714253X http://tinyurl.com/7r67fmm http://www.slideshare.net/Wowter/ altmetrics-another-view-on-impact