Altmetrics: Rethinking the Way We Measure

Galligan, Finbar; Dyas-Correia, Sharon

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2013.01.003

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“…Finally, as has already been mentioned, some altmetrics are more easily gamed or maneuvered than others (Carpenter, 2014;Galligan & Dyas-Correia, 2013; "H-index," 2014), e.g. Google Scholar citations (Davis, 2012).…”

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Altmetrics: What Good are They to Academic Libraries?

Sutton¹

2014

Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Sec

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New knowledge is built on existing knowledge and academic libraries are the primary repositories of existing knowledge for the scholars whose work they support. In these times of belt tightening and budget reductions, it behooves academic libraries to think about how to demonstrate to administrators the value being returned on investments in the library, and to provide scholars with tools to do the same. Traditional means of measuring the quality of new knowledge like the impact factor and h-index are being made richer and more meaningful through the addition of new, social media based alternative metrics. Altmetrics also provide scholars communicating in non-traditional venues like the blogosphere and the Twitterverse with meaningful measures of the impact of their work. In this presentation I will introduce altmetrics, discuss their advantages and disadvantages relative to more traditional metrics, and propose some specific uses to which academic libraries may put altmetrics in support of the transitions now occurring in scholarly communication and thus in academic libraries AbstractNew knowledge is built on existing knowledge and academic libraries are the primary repositories of existing knowledge for the scholars whose work they support. In these times of belt tightening and budget reductions, it behooves academic libraries to think about how to demonstrate to administrators the value being returned on investments in the library, and to provide scholars with tools to do the same. Traditional means of measuring the quality of new knowledge like the impact factor and h-index are being made richer and more meaningful through the addition of new, social media based alternative metrics. Altmetrics also provide scholars communicating in non-traditional venues like the blogosphere and the Twitterverse with meaningful measures of the impact of their work. In this presentation I will introduce altmetrics, discuss their advantages and disadvantages relative to more traditional metrics, and propose some specific uses to which academic libraries may put altmetrics in support of the transitions now occurring in scholarly communication and thus in academic libraries.

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“…Also, the value of individual online dialogs (e.g. blogs, Twitter, whatever comes next) has not been well established (Galligan & Dyas-Correia, 2013). …”

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Altmetrics: What Good are They to Academic Libraries?

Sutton¹

2014

Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Sec

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“…Apesar de diversos pontos a favor e pontos contra poderem ser levantados, as altmetrics estão sendo cada vez mais mensuradas, acompanhadas e consideradas na avaliação de impacto de artigos, de pesquisadores e de periódicos, podendo revolucionar a análise do impacto de trabalhos acadêmicos (Galligan & Dyas-Correia, 2013). As métricas tradicionais de índice h e de fator de impacto são importantes, todavia, autores e editores devem monitorar as tendências de avaliação da produção acadêmica, identificando estratégias para, respectivamente, aumentar a influência de suas pesquisas e de seus journals, levando-se em consideração também as altmetrics.…”

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Kimura

2015

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“…Altmetrics also provided researchers a way to demonstrate to granting agencies that their projects are achieving broad reach to the general public, something that is increasingly mandated in calls for proposal. 14 Altmetrics measure a variety of different interactions with content. Those interactions may include somewhat passive interactions, such as a page view, a like on Facebook or a favorite on Twitter.…”

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“…Galligan was among the first to identify a scholarly communication outreach possibility for librarians by highlighting the idea of assisting faculty members to demonstrate research value through a deliberate strategy of scholarly communication. 14 Barbaro, Gentili and Rebuffi perceived the primary library roles as educating faculty about the latest altmetric tools to emerge and encouraging experiments in new uses of those tools. 25 Galloway, Pease and Rauh suggested outreach to faculty using altmetrics in their article comparing traditional scholarly metrics and altmetrics.…”

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Using Altmetrics as an Engineering Faculty Outreach Tool

Nelson¹

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Engineering faculty members are increasingly looking at the pros and cons of the number of research communication tools that are available but are overwhelmed by the variety and lack of evidence that the tools will have a positive influence on research impact, promotion, and tenure. Engineering faculty are drawn to altmetrics for a more complete picture of real world impact while simultaneously dubious of the validity of these emerging measures. This paper reviews the literature on altmetric tools, identifies the existing tools, as well as pros and cons of using those tools. The author investigates how the tools can be used to create an outreach service for faculty members in engineering that supports disciplinary faculty to strategically design an online presence for research impact. IntroductionWhere researchers have looked to traditional journal based metrics in the past as an indication of the impact of their scholarly work, increasingly print presents limited information about the much more dynamic environments of internet based communication platforms such as Twitter, networking sites such as LinkedIn and ResearchGate, or even aggregators such as Google Scholar.1 In the past ten years researchers have had alternative means to publicize their research using social media and other web based tools. A category of tools that measure impacts and statistics of usage and viewing based on the Social Web are referred to as altmetrics.2 Altmetrics present an alternative to journal based metrics such as impact factor, Eigenvalues, and other print based algorithms or measures. 3The basic functions of online scientific communication via the social web include collaboration, searching for relevant content, documenting original materials, promoting one's work, building peer networks, extracting and organizing information, and conducting peer reviews.4,5 Scientific and professional communication online supports diversity in the sciences and engineering. It provides a platform for role models from diverse backgrounds to connect with new scientists and engineers.6 Online scientific communication also allows individuals in specialized areas dispersed over a wide geographic area to easily communicate as a discipline in a designated virtual environment. 4 It gives a venue for identifying and/or purchasing parts, information on user opinions or demographic information, and competitor information.7 Social media can also enable geographically dispersed design teams to complete projects using asynchronous and synchronous communication. Taking advantage of these functions requires scientists and engineers to communicate strategically. The variety of social web tools available each offer different functions and utilities. 4 Similarly, different altmetric tools measure the impact of different social web tools. Just as liaison librarians presented faculty members with journal based metrics and helped them to frame their impact for promotion and tenure cases, liaisons can also assist professors to understand the emerging social ...

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Altmetrics: Rethinking the Way We Measure

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Altmetrics: What Good are They to Academic Libraries?

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