Alternative Perspectives on Impact: The Potential of ALMs and Altmetrics to Inform Funders about Research Impact

Dinsmore, Adam; Allen, Liz; Dolby, Kevin

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002003

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“…Eighty-nine percent of the Scientists indicated they were not aware/using them and only one person indicated they had heard of them, but were not using them. As this area has generated more discussion and exposure across all the disciplines in the time since the interviews were conducted in 2012 and 2013 (e.g., Thelwall et al 2013;Dinsmore, Allen &Dolby, 2014 andHtoo andNa, 2017), it is postulated by the authors that this area is one where the responses might be substantially different were the interviews repeated.…”

Section: Altmetricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Thuna

King

2017

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With an increasing focus on scholarly communications in academic libraries, librarians are struggling with how best to support faculty with the location, interpretation, and appropriate use of metrics. Very little has been written about the faculty researcher perspective on metrics and, as a result, librarians may have a deep knowledge of the tools but have a more limited understanding of the users' viewpoint. Seventy-nine senior research faculty who were five or more years post-tenure were interviewed. Faculty from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences were all invited to participate. Each interview consisted of nine questions relating to how the faculty understand and use impact metrics in their academic life. Responses were varied to all of the questions and were tied closely to the disciplinary fields of the research faculty interviewed. A large majority of the interviewed faculty viewed the library as a key resource for getting more information relating to metrics. This research reveals a need to fill a gap between librarians and faculty researchers with examples of disciplinary best practices of metrics use, as well as product information as pertains to impact metrics.

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Section: Altmetricsmentioning

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Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Thuna

King

2017

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“…Altmetrics are said to complement traditional bibliometric indicators rather than act as an alternative as often the metrics used, usually social web coverage, are not prevalent enough to be used as sole indicator of article impact and use [19]. However, they can give an early indication of uptake of research (through social media stats) [18] and are particularly useful for early career researchers who do not have a large body of work [18] and have not been cited by high numbers of other researchers.…”

Section: Research Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond REF 2014: The impact of impact assessment on the future of information research

Marcella

Lockerbie

Bloice

2016

Journal of Information Science

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The importance of demonstrating value for money in terms of academic research beyond the walls of institutions grows stronger as demonstrated by the inclusion of impact assessment in the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise for UK higher education institutions (HEIs). To understand if such focus is influencing the library and information science (LIS) discipline, this paper reports a critical examination of impact case studies submitted to REF 2014 under the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management Unit of Assessment. Content analysis was conducted on 25 case studies submitted by 14 institutions, establishing the methodologies, impacts, beneficiaries, published outputs and corroborative evidence reported. The implications of impact assessment on future LIS researcher behaviour, in terms of research conceptualisation and design, were explored through nine qualitative telephone interviews. While individual researchers did not anticipate their behaviour to change due to the introduction of impact assessments, there are anticipated changes across the discipline including a greater focus on engaging with stakeholders and research beneficiaries at early stages of research design and an emphasis on mixed methodologies to maximise the power and consequences of research results.

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“…One of these new measures' attractive features is their speed. Traditional citations may take years to yield measurable impact, while altmetrics can theoretically reveal impact in weeks, days, or even minutes (Brown, 2014;Dinsmore, Allen, & Dolby, 2014;Lapinski, Piwowar, & Priem, 2013;. Also important is the possibility of measuring a broader scope of materials and "products" in addition to traditional manuscripts (Bornmann, 2014(Bornmann, , 2015Herther, 2013;Howard, 2015;Lapinski et al, 2013;.…”

Section: Research Impact Old and Newmentioning

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Academic Librarians’ Knowledge of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

Malone

Burke

2016

EBLIP

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the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncsa/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -To measure the knowledge and opinions that academic librarians have of established and emerging research metrics.Methods -An online survey was distributed to all academic librarians in Oklahoma during Summer 2015.Results -Librarians were less familiar with altmetrics than with bibliometrics, but they viewed altmetrics as effective and were interested in receiving training to learn more about them. Librarians who had been in the profession for over five years knew more about both bibliometrics and altmetrics than newer librarians.

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Alternative Perspectives on Impact: The Potential of ALMs and Altmetrics to Inform Funders about Research Impact

Abstract: More evidence of the meaning and validity of ALMs and altmetrics, coupled with greater consistency and transparency in their presentation, would enable research funders to explore their potential value and identify appropriate use cases.

Cited by 114 publications

References 12 publications

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Beyond REF 2014: The impact of impact assessment on the future of information research

Academic Librarians’ Knowledge of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

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