Andrea Michalek Co-founder and CEO andrea@plumanalytics plumanalytics

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Andrea Michalek Co-founder and CEO

andrea@plumanalytics.com

www.plumanalytics.com@amichalek @plumanalytics

#altmetrics

Plum Analytics

Measuring Research Impact

•Please tweet at will:•@amichalek•@PlumAnalytics• #altmetrics

Current State of Scholarly Measure

Reality of Scholarly Communication

Traditional Citation Based Products

Products including Altmetrics

altmetrics

#altmetricsallmetrics

Open Access = Open Metrics

Open Access = “Buyer” Changing

Closed publications

how much your university uses the collection

Open publications

how much the world uses your

research

What is Plum building?• Next generation impact analysis metrics for scholarly

research.• Aggregating artifact and author level metrics into a

researcher graph.• Metrics captured and correlated at the group/collection

level (think: lab, department, museum, journal, etc.)

This graph will power intuitive research directories and visualizations.

Plum Impact Reports

•Measure people, labs, departments, institutes, universities

Metrics are not the same

Different categories of impact• Usage• Downloads, views, book holdings, ILL, document delivery

• Captures• Favorites, bookmarks, saves, readers, groups, watchers

• Mentions• Blog post, news story, Wikipedia article, comments,

review• Social Media• Tweets, Google +1s, likes, shares, ratings

• Citations• Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Microsoft

Academic Search 13

First Plum Customer – University of Pittsburgh

“We expect Plum to enhance the valueproposition of the Open Access initiative hereat Pitt by providing new and current impact metrics for research that is made more accessible.”

- Rush Miller, Director of University Library System

(Ric Evans photo)

Thank You!

Andrea Michalekandrea@plumanalytics.com215-280-1805@amichalek

Mike Buschmanmike@plumanalytics.com206-331-7297@mikebuschman

@plumanalytics

Andrea Michalek Co-founder and CEO andrea@plumanalytics plumanalytics

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