altmetrics and social media: publicising, discovering, engaging
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Altmetrics and
Social Media
Publicising, discovering,
engaging
Michael Ladisch UCD Library
Using Altmetrics
for Tracking
Societal Impact
Michael Ladisch, UCD Library
May 2015
Alt-metrics
Michael Ladisch, UCD Library
May 2015
"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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May 2015
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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May 2015
Altmetric for Institutions
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May 2015
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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May 2015
Altmetric for Institutions
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May 2015
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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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
Michael Ladisch, UCD Library
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)
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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.
Michael Ladisch
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
UCD Library, May 2015
Social Networks for Researchers
Source: Van
Noorden 2014,
‘Scientists and
the Social
Network’,
Nature, vol.
512, 14. Aug.,
pp. 126-129
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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UCD Library, May 2015
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
https://www.linkedin.com
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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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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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UCD Library, May 2015
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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UCD Library, May 2015
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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UCD Library, October 2013
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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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!
Contact: Phone: +353 (0)1 716 7530
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: MichaelUCDLib
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