measuring the societal impact of open science
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Kim Holmberg*,1, Fereshteh Didegah1, Timothy D. Bowman1, Sarah Bowman1, and Terttu Kortelainen2
1 Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, University of Turku2 Information Studies, University of Oulu
* Financed by The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture’s Open
Science and Research Initiative
*
Open science is “the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process.”
Nielsen, M. (2011). Definitions of Open Science? Okfn mailing list. https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2011-July/000907.html. Retrieved on 13 January, 2015.
Altmetrics and open science?
Friesike and Schildhauer (2015) suggest that wider range of quantitative indicators of a wider range of impact can be incentivizing for researchers to make their research more accessible, adopting the open science ideology.
Friesike, S. & Schildhauer, T. (2015). Open science: many good resolutions, very few incentives, yet. In: Welpe, I.M., Wollersheim, J., Ringelhan, S. & Osterloh, M. (Eds.). Incentives and Performance. Givernance of Research Organizations. Springer.
Created by researchers
Created by the public
Altmetrics
Altmetrics
Provide a more nuanced image of the total impact that research has made?
?How are altmetric events distributed between articles in open access journals and other journals?
!Our preliminary results are based on an analysis of how almost 4 million altmetric events are spread between articles in open access journals (as listed by DOAJ) and other journals.
Thank you Euan and Altmetric.com for sharing the data!
Mendeley readersCiteulike readers
Connotea readers
Blog posts
News posts
Reddit posts
Facebook posts
Google plus posts
Pinterest postsQ and A posts
F1000 posts
Video posts
LinkedIn posts
Twitter posts
Peer review posts
Wikipedia posts
Policy posts
-2.7490
0.0832
-0.0088
0.0014
0.0087
0.0135
0.1986
0.0245
0.0008-0.0008
-0.0218
0.0015
0.0001
1.1447
0.0184
-0.1112
-0.0048
Figure 1. Differences between the average number of altmetric events for open access articles and for paid articles. Higher positive values indicate an advantage for open access
articles; higher negative values indicate an advantage for paid articles.
!The results • Twitter (and Facebook to lesser degree)
might be able to reflect the attention of a wider public.
• Mendeley is used mainly by researchers. • A great deal of Wikipedia articles are
written by researchers with paid access to research articles (additional evidence of the high quality of Wikipedia articles?).
Kim [email protected] http://kimholmberg.fi @kholmber
Bedankt voor uw aandacht!
Holmberg, Kim (2015): Open Science logo. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1391887