Altmetrics and Social Media: Publicising, Discovering, Engaging

Altmetrics and

Social Media

Publicising, discovering,

engaging

Michael Ladisch UCD Library

[email protected]

Using Altmetrics

for Tracking

Societal Impact

Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

May 2015

Alt-metrics

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"Altmetrics are measures of scholarly

impact mined from activity in online tools

and environments.”

Jason Priem, author of “Altmetrics: a manifesto”

Benefits:

• A more nuanced understanding of impact, showing us which

scholarly products are read, discussed, saved and recommended

as well as cited.

• Often more timely data, showing evidence of impact in days

instead of years.

• A window on the impact of web-native scholarly products like

datasets, software, blog posts, videos and more.

• Indications of impacts on diverse audiences including scholars but

also practitioners, clinicians, educators and the general public.

H. Piwowar, Bull. Assoc. Inform. Sci. Technol., 39 (2013) 4

Alt-metrics

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5

Alt-metrics

Previously measured

• Citations

• Journal Impact Factor

• Grant money

• Awards

Potentially measured

Source: S. Konkiel, Univ. of Indiana Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

May 2015

Alt-metrics

Potentially measured

• Viewed (publisher websites, Dryad)

• Downloaded (publisher websites , Slideshare, Dryad)

• Cited (WoS, Scopus, PubMed, Wikipedia, Policy Docs)

• Shared (Facebook, Twitter)

• Reused/adapted (Github)

• Bookmarked ( Mendeley, CiteULike, Delicious)

• Purchased (Library catalogues, Sales numbers)

• Commented upon (Twitter, Mendeley, blogs, publisher

websites, Wikipedia, Faculty 1000)

Source: S. Konkiel, Univ. of Indiana Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

May 2015

In general, altmetrics numbers…

X Don’t represent the quality of

research.

Don’t indicate the quality of

individual researchers.

Don’t tell the whole story –

always look for qualitative

data as well

X

X

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Source: altmetric.com

Caveats

• Lack of standards

• Open to manipulation and gaming

• Use of online tools my differ by individual researcher, discipline,

over time

• Popularity (attention) does not always equal quality of research

• Was the spike in hits a one-time, short-attention event?

• Data sources come and go (think MySpace, Connotea)

• Services started as free, open-source, open-access tools, often

switched to charging fees

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Altmetric

http://www.altmetric.com/index.php Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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Altmetric for Institutions

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Altmetric for Institutions

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Altmetric for Institutions

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Altmetric for Institutions

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College of Business & Law 52

College of Engineering and Architecture 123

College of Health Sciences 996

College of Human Sciences 224

College of Science 1,102

Altmetric for Institutions

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Altmetric for Institutions

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Altmetric for Institutions

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AfI at UCD

• Subscription purchased by UCD Research

• DOIs provided and uploaded by UCD Research

• IP address access

UCD Research

• Leading implementation

• Maintaining AfI profile

• Reporting on institutional and school level

UCD Library

• Training and support for research administrators

• Training and support for individual researcher

• Providing online information (LibGuide)

Altmetric

Publication in Scopus

http://www.altmetric.com/index.php Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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Altmetric

http://www.altmetric.com/index.php Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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Altmetric in Research Repository UCD

http://researchrepository.ucd.ie/ Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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ImpactStory

http://impactstory.org/ Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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ImpactStory

http://impactstory.org/ Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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Plum Analytics

http://www.plumanalytics.com/ Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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PlumX

http://www.plumanalytics.com/ Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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PlumX

http://www.plumanalytics.com/ Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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More Information

http://libguides.ucd.ie/bibliometrics/altmetrics Michael Ladisch, UCD Library

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Visibility &

engagement in

research

Using social media for

your research

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May 2015

Why should I use social media for my

research?

• Global connectedness

• Engage directly with your

audiences

• Boosts your exposure

• You receive real feedback

• Creating and sharing content

• Establish credibility

• Everybody’s doing it

• Some of the services are harvested

by altemetrics tools!

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UCD Library, May 2015

Social Networks for Researchers

Some tips:

• Maintain your profiles

• Be consistent

• Use your full name

• Cross-link your different profiles

• Don’t be a “Troll”

• Be always polite

• Add copyright statement for your work and respect

other’s

• Don’t overshare

In Internet slang, troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/)

is a person who sows discord on the

Internet by starting arguments or

upsetting people,[1] by posting

inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-

topic messages in an online

community (such as a forum, chat

room, or blog),

either accidentally[3][4] or with the

deliberate intent of provoking readers

into an emotional response[5]or of

otherwise disrupting normal on-topic

discussion. (Source: Wikipedia)

Michael Ladisch

UCD Library, May 2015

Social Networks for Researchers

Before signing up:

• Be aware that your profile is public

• Read the small print

• Who owns the data?

• Third party services can close down;

they can be sold

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UCD Library, May 2015

Social Networks for Researchers

http://tosdr.org

“I have read and

agree to the Terms”

is the biggest lie on

the web.

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UCD Library, May 2015

Scholarly Social Networks

http://ie.linkedin.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/

http://www.academia.edu/

http://www.ssrn.com/

General Social Networks

https://www.facebook.com/

http://twitter.com/

https://plus.google.com/ Michael Ladisch

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Social Networks for Researchers

Source: Van

Noorden 2014,

‘Scientists and

the Social

Network’,

Nature, vol.

512, 14. Aug.,

pp. 126-129

Academia.edu

http://www.academia.edu/

Fact sheet:

• Started in 2008

• Membership is free

• 18.8 million members (March 2015)

• More than 5.3 million papers

• 15.7 million unique visitors per month

• 3,651 members from UCD

Academia.edu

http://www.academia.edu/

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Academia.edu

http://www.academia.edu/

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http://www.researchgate.net/

ResearchGate

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Fact sheet:

• Started in 2008

• Membership is free

• 5+ million members (March 2015)

• More than 14 million full text papers

(67 million publications)

• More than 16,700 job listings

• 3,376 members from UCD

ResearchGate

http://www.researchgate.net/

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ResearchGate

http://www.researchgate.net/

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Fact sheet:

• Started in 2003

• Membership is free

• 300 million members (June 2014)

• Formation of interest groups (1.3 million

groups)

• Professional networking

• Job listings, business opportunities

• 3,251 members from UCD

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com

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LinkedIn

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https://twitter.com/

• Tweet about new publications

• Get feedback on ideas

• Great for reaching external audiences

• Tweet from conferences

• Remember…all tweets are public!

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https://twitter.com/

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Follow or

tweet from

conferences

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https://twitter.com/

Lists of academic tweeters by LSE (by discipline):

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/

09/02/academic-tweeters-your-suggestions-in-full/

UCD Teaching & Learning – 10 Days of Twitter

https://ucd10dot.wordpress.com/

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Google Scholar Citations

http://scholar.google.com/

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Google Scholar Citations

http://scholar.google.com/

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Academic

blogs can be

interesting

sources of

new and

cutting edge

research.

Blogs

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PhD students start

blogging to put

their thoughts out

there – bounce

ideas off others and

invite comments to

further enhance

their journey

towards their

finished

dissertations.

Blogs

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In addition to individuals, there are blogs from respected journals

and academic institutions ….

http://blogs.bmj.com/

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In addition to individuals, there are blogs from respected journals

and academic institutions ….

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/ /

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Looking for blogs of interest?

http://researchblogging.com/

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Blogging

http://wordpress.com/ http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.typepad.com/ https://www.tumblr.com/

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Personal Website

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http://wordpress.com/

Personal Website

http://flavors.me/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.dreamhost.com/

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ORCID

http://orcid.org/

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ORCID

http://orcid.org/

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ORCID

http://orcid.org/

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http://researchrepository.ucd.ie

Research Repository UCD

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Publication

Statistics

Research Repository UCD

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Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical

Report, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton

Research Repository UCD

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More Information

http://libguides.ucd.ie/

http://libguides.ucd.ie/orcid

http://libguides.ucd.ie/data

http://libguides.ucd.ie/bibliometrics

Michael Ladisch

UCD Library, May 2015

Thank you!

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