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More Than Citations and Impact Factor: Altmetric.com
November 12, 2014
Terri E. Moffitt -
Alyson Williams -
Sara Rouhi -
Duke University
Inter-American Development Bank
Altmetric.com
Our Presenters …
Sara Rouhi
Altmetric.com
Terrie Moffitt
Duke University
Alyson Williams
Inter-American
Development Bank
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Today we’ll cover
• Overview of Altmetric– Sara Rouhi , Product Specialist, Altmetric
• Case study: Principal Investigator/Lab– Dr. Terrie Moffitt, Professor of Psychology, Duke University
• Case study: Special Library/Bank– Alyson Williams, Knowledge and Learning Specialist at Inter-
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Researchers talk: Let’s listen.
An introduction to #altmetrics and Altmetric.com
– Sara Rouhi– November 12, 2014– [email protected]
– @RouhiRoo
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35Konline mentions of scholarly articles every day.
1 mention every 2.5 seconds!
137K unique articles are shared each week.
>2M articles with tracked attention data.
The conversation is moving online...
Source: Altmetric internal data, June 2014
Traditional metrics lag behind…
Funders are noticing…
Grant funders looking for proof of “broader impacts” often defined as “an effect, change, or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policies, health, the environment, etc.”
Research Excellence Framework, http://www.ref.ac.uk/panels/assessmentcriteriaandleveldefinitions/
Broaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technological understanding, for example, by presenting results of research and education projects in formats useful to students, scientists and engineers, members of Congress, teachers, and the general public.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07046/nsf07046.jsp
Our definition…
Not a replacement but a complement
Policy documents, blogs, mainstream news, social media
#altmetrics can help provide a broader view
An alternative,
more immediate measure of
impact
An alternative,
more immediate measure of
impact
From non-traditional sources
From non-traditional sources
To provide a larger context
To provide a larger context
Altmetric is a data science company that tracks attention to research outputs, delivering article level metrics via visually engaging, intuitive interfaces.
In other words, we help give credit where credit is due .
Who are we?
Science of data: high quality, highly relevance sources
News outlets
Social media
and blogs
Reference managers
Other sources
Post-pub peer
review
Other sources: policy documents• ASHA Practice Policy • AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies • European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) • Food and Agriculture Organization • GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)• International Monetary Fund • (IMF) – (Tracking working papers)• Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) • Mental Health Foundation (UK)• NICE Evidence • UNESCO • World Health Organization (WHO)And more being added each week…
Intuitive interfaces: details, donut, score
Wait, what’s that donut?
Demographics Tab
Demographic data is about providing CONTEXT.
Who is reading your work?
Where are they?
What stage of their career are they in?
The score: Benchmarking
Telling a story: What can the data tell you?
What type of attention is this research receiving?
Where has this article received the most traction?
Which countries are engaging most with the content?
Has this article influenced policy, spurred new research, or engaged a new audience?
Are reactions to this article positive or negative?
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What the data doesn’t tell you
The quality of the paper
The quality of the researchers
The whole story
Context matters!
• Research institutes
• Government agencies
• Top research universities
• Corporations
• Think tanks
Who uses Altmetric data? Institutions
• Institutional repository badge embeds
• Badge integration with discovery systems
• Altmetric for Institutions
How have Institutions used the data
Introducing Altmetric for Institutions
Thank you!
• altmetric.com• @altmetric
• Principal Investigator Case Study: Demonstrating “broader impacts”
• Terrie Moffitt, PhD• Nannerl O. Keohane Professor• Professor, Duke Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences• Duke University
• Professor of Psychiatry• Kings College London
• 12 November 2014
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“Try the bookmarklet, it’s ultra cool”
Article by article wasn’t enough
Article by article wasn’t enough
Article by article wasn’t enough
Making the case for demonstrating broader impact
How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning? How well does the proposed activity broaden the participation of underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic, etc.)? To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure for research and education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and partnerships? Will the results be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding? What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society? “
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07046/nsf07046.jsp NSF Broader Impacts Criterion
Here’s what the Altmetric for Institutions showed me about my own data
Policy documents? Who knew?
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Total No. of stories
Total No. of outlets
No. Interna onal outlets
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Total No. of stories
Total No. of outlets
No. Interna onal outlets
Demonstrating “broader impact” with International News coverage = 60%
Data from Article Details Pages
Demonstrating “broader impact” with International Blog coverage = 40%
Data from Article Details Pages
New communities, new conversations
From Article Details Pages
Many many more eyeballs – my T10
3,941,227
634,343
190,593 187,480263,719
70,617 137,926 115,455 84,1585,121
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Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4 Article 5 Article 6 Article 7 Article 8 Article 9 Article 10
Twitter reach by article - Total upward bound: 5,630,639
Data from Article Details Pages
Even if 1% click on the article, that’s 56,000 eyes that never would have seen it before Twitter.
Bottom line? #altmetrics make me look better
From NIH Program Manager“[This altmetric data is] fantastic information for [our] budget report.”
I save a tremendous amount time for my lab and me having to demonstrate “evidence of impact” to various funders via “researchfish.”
And we’re always learning
• No idea that our methods papers were getting so much attention– Too boring for news– Long time to get citations– But young researchers care and are tweeting
extensively!• Altmetrics can help me teach undergraduates
– Students will be asked to find top papers (in terms of attention) in different areas
– See first hand the impact of the internet and online media in disseminating important, life changing research
Thank you!
• Terrie Moffitt, PhD
• Nannerl O. Keohane Professor• Professor, Duke Psychology and
Neuroscience Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
• Duke University
• Professor of Psychiatry• Kings College London
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