Introduction to Altmetrics for Medical and Special Librarians Linda M. Galloway, MLIS Librarian for Biology, Chemistry and Forensics Bibliographer for the Sciences & Technology Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY NN/LM MAR Boost Box Series March 2014
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Introduction to Altmetrics for Medical and Special Librarians
Altmetrics (or alternative citation metrics) provide new ways to track scholarly influence across a wide range of media and platforms. This presentation covers altmetric fundamentals, tips on connecting your users with altmetrics, and an overview of newly published research. Presented as part of the NN/LM MAR Boost Box Series; http://nnlm.gov/mar/training/boost_mar2014.pdf
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Introduction to Altmetrics for Medical and Special Librarians
Linda M. Galloway, MLISLibrarian for Biology, Chemistry and ForensicsBibliographer for the Sciences & Technology
Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY
NN/LM MAR Boost Box SeriesMarch 2014
About Me…• Librarian/subject specialist for Biology,
Chemistry & Forensic Science• Evaluate and select content , help people
access the content they need, teach, create web content, various librarian duties
• B.S. Chemistry, MSLIS from Syracuse University
• Bibliographer for Sciences & Technology • Email: [email protected]
Google Scholar Citations is a service that allows authors to track their publications and influence using Google Scholar metrics. Mendeley is a free reference manager and social network that was recently acquired by Elsevier. Mendeley is described as “one of the world’s largest crowd-sourced research catalogs” Zotero is a robust and growing citation management and sharing resource. Collaborators can share libraries of references, etc.
Commercial• Altmetric.com –owned by Macmillan Publishers
(also owns the Nature Publishing Group). “Provides article level metrics for researchers and publishers”
• Plum Analytics – startup co-founded by former Summon developers; recently acquired by EBSCO. Collects article-level data for use by different constituencies to compare individuals, departments, universities.
social networking tool for researchers/authors. Collects & displays altmetrics. Recently purchased by Elsevier.
“Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) is an analytics tool built on top of Mendeley that helps librarians, research directors and other admins to understand the research activity and scholarship output of their community and to facilitate collaboration within it (Mendeley.com).”
• ImpactStory – designed for the individual researcher, tools to visualize impact of research products. Helps “researchers to tell data-driven stories about their impacts” (ImpactStory, 2014).
• Makes the argument that “total readership” is important b/c it reflects pure (non-publishing) uses of publications – docs applied to daily work, support teaching, societal effects
Haustein, Stefanie, Isabella Peters, Judit Bar-Ilan, Jason Priem, Hadas Shema, and Jens Terliesner. "Coverage and adoption of altmetrics sources in the bibliometric community." arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7300 (2013).
Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective
• An extensive article!• Large study of 718,315 publications from Web
of Science with altmetric indicators provided by Altmetric.com (excluded Mendeley)
• Used Pearson’s correlation analysis to find connection between altmetrics & bibliometrics
Costas, R., Zahedi, Z., & Wouters, P. (2014). Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective. arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4321.
Do altmetrics correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective
• Altmetric counts are low (15-24%)& not very frequent in scientific pubs, although presence is increasing
• Social sciences, humanities, and medical & life sciences had highest presence of altmetrics
• Found positive weak correlation between altmetrics & citations – reflecting that altmetrics do not capture the same concepts of impact
• Altmetrics are valued as a complementary tool of citation analysis
Altmetrics & ResearchersMetrics and their relationship to social media:
• Add value to traditionally published content– Crowdsourced peer review– Expose questions and comments– Enhance worth
• Increase readership• Appear to follow the pattern of traditional
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