The rise of altmetrics

Adie, Euan

doi:10.29085/9781783301515.005

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“…Although in principle Altmetrics can be applied to any research output that has a digital object identifier (DOI), including datasets, code, and software (Piwowar, 2013), its use for measuring the impact of bioinformatics software is less common. Furthermore, Altmetrics may still be biased by high impact factor (hence, greater exposure, and discussion) (Adie, 2013), and overlook the practical usability of software. The usefulness of these alternative metrics on measuring the impact of bioinformatics software remains unknown.…”

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GitHub Statistics as a Measure of the Impact of Open-Source Bioinformatics Software

Dozmorov

2018

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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Modern research is increasingly data-driven and reliant on bioinformatics software. Publication is a common way of introducing new software, but not all bioinformatics tools get published. Giving there are competing tools, it is important not merely to find the appropriate software, but have a metric for judging its usefulness. Journal's impact factor has been shown to be a poor predictor of software popularity; consequently, focusing on publications in high-impact journals limits user's choices in finding useful bioinformatics tools. Free and open source software repositories on popular code sharing platforms such as GitHub provide another venue to follow the latest bioinformatics trends. The open source component of GitHub allows users to bookmark and copy repositories that are most useful to them. This Perspective aims to demonstrate the utility of GitHub “stars,” “watchers,” and “forks” (GitHub statistics) as a measure of software impact. We compiled lists of impactful bioinformatics software and analyzed commonly used impact metrics and GitHub statistics of 50 genomics-oriented bioinformatics tools. We present examples of community-selected best bioinformatics resources and show that GitHub statistics are distinct from the journal's impact factor (JIF), citation counts, and alternative metrics (Altmetrics, CiteScore) in capturing the level of community attention. We suggest the use of GitHub statistics as an unbiased measure of the usability of bioinformatics software complementing the traditional impact metrics.

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GitHub Statistics as a Measure of the Impact of Open-Source Bioinformatics Software

Dozmorov

2018

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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“…The rise of the Altmetrics allowed measuring broader impact of scholarly publications (Adie, 2016 ; Holmberg, 2015 ; Sugimoto et al, 2017 ; Warren et al, 2017 ), expanding the cited publications to be analyzed (from journal articles to any scholarly output), the citing publications to be considered (from scholarly publications to non-scholarly publications), and the nature of the performance metrics available (from bibliographic citations to usage, dissemination, comments, discussion, rating or connectivity), leading to a new generation of research metrics (Orduña-Malea et al, 2016 ; Priem & Hemminger, 2010 ) led by social acts (Haustein et al, 2016a ).…”

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Are patents linked on Twitter? A case study of Google patents

Orduña-Malea

Font-Julián

2022

Scientometrics

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This study attempts to analyze patents as cited/mentioned documents to better understand the interest, dissemination and engagement of these documents in social environments, laying the foundations for social media studies of patents (social Patentometrics).Particularly, this study aims to determine how patents are disseminated on Twitter by analyzing three elements: tweets linking to patents, users linking to patents, and patents linked from Twitter. To do this, all the tweets containing at least one link to a full-text patent available on Google Patents were collected and analyzed, yielding a total of 126,815 tweets (and 129,001 links) to 86,417 patents. The results evidence an increase of the number of linking tweets over the years, presumably due to the creation of a standardized patent URL ID and the integration of Google Patents and Google Scholar, which took place in 2015. The engagement achieved by these tweets is limited (80.2% of tweets did not attract likes) but increasing notably since 2018. Two super-publisher twitter bot accounts (dailypatent and uspatentbot) are responsible of 53.3% of all the linking tweets, while most accounts are sporadic users linking to patent as part of a conversation. The patents most tweeted are, by far, from United States (87.5% of all links to Google Patents), mainly due to the effect of the two super-publishers. The impact of patents in terms of the number of tweets linking to them is unrelated to their year of publication, status or number of patent citations received, while controversial and media topics might be more determinant factors. However, further research is needed to better understand the topics discussed around patents on Twitter, the users involved, and the metrics attained. Given the increasing number of linking users and linked patents, this study finds Twitter as a relevant source to measure patent-level metrics, shedding light on the impact and interest of patents by the broad public.

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“…Both citation-based indicators and altmetrics are often used as proxies for scientific productivity or relevance (Adie, 2016;Aksnes et al, 2019;Waltman, 2016). Oftentimes respective evaluations-at least if they are not conducted in a remarkably knowledgeable and careful way-start on the premise that as long as two articles originate from similar fields of research, are published in outlets of comparable renown and are of similar scientific quality, they will have roughly the same probability of getting cited.…”

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Research articles promoted in embargo e-mails receive higher citations and altmetrics

Lemke

Brede

Rotgeri³

et al. 2021

Scientometrics

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In order to be able to provide thorough and timely coverage on the most recent scientific research, science journalists frequently rely on embargoed information sent to them by publishers of scientific journals. In such embargo e-mails, publishers purposefully bring selected upcoming releases to the journalists’ attention a few days in advance of their publication. Little is known on how this early highlighting of certain research articles affects their later citations or altmetrics. We present an exploratory case study with the aim of assessing the effects of such promotion activities on scientific articles’ bibliometric and altmetric indicators. In a treatment–control design, we analyze citation counts and eight types of altmetrics of 715 articles published between 2016 and 2017 whose DOIs have been mentioned in embargo e-mails and compare these to articles from the same journal issues that have not been highlighted in embargo e-mails. Descriptive statistics and Mann–Whitney-U tests reveal significant advantages for promoted articles across all regarded metrics three to four years after their publication. Particularly large differences can be seen regarding numbers of mentions in mainstream media, in blogs, on Twitter, and on Facebook. Our findings suggest that scholarly publishers exert significant influence over which research articles will receive attention and visibility in various (social) media. Also, regarding utilizations of metrics for evaluative purposes, the observed effects of promotional activities on indicators might constitute a factor of undesirable influence that currently does not receive the amount of consideration in scientometric assessments that it should receive.

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The rise of altmetrics

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GitHub Statistics as a Measure of the Impact of Open-Source Bioinformatics Software

GitHub Statistics as a Measure of the Impact of Open-Source Bioinformatics Software

Are patents linked on Twitter? A case study of Google patents

Research articles promoted in embargo e-mails receive higher citations and altmetrics

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