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Altmetrics: Unlocking opportunities for discovery Sara Rouhi Director of Business Development, Altmetric LLP @RouhiRoo [email protected]

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Altmetrics: Unlocking

opportunities for discovery

Sara RouhiDirector of Business Development, Altmetric LLP

@[email protected]

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Some definitions

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“alt”-metrics/web-based metrics

Any trace or indicator of online behavior

Research output (article, dataset, clinical

trial etc)

Web analytics

Sharing/downloading/saving

Commentary on social media

Coverage in news

media/blogs

Citations in non-journal sources

(grey lit, patents, Wikipedia)

Engagement on scholarly platforms

(F1000, peer review sites)

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Altmetric.com

Data science company dedicated to tracking

and analyzing the online activity around

scholarly research outputs

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Research output

Any digital object produced in the research

life-cycle

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Online activity

Any form of engagement with

scholarly research

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Origins for the need for new

measures

Journal metrics lag time

Niche fields with small journals

Grant funders calls for “broader impacts” evidence

Early career researchers with small research history

Research areas with no publishing focus

lag time

Niche fields

no publishing

broader impacts

Early career

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Who uses web-based metrics?

Journal publishers

Early career

researchersCorporate/pharmaceuticals

Grant funders

Research libraries

Government agencies

Non-profits

Foundations

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Why?

New audiences of engagement, collaborators,

trends, sentiment, red-flags, green-flags

…who, what, where, when…WHY?

Journal articlesR

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Datasets/Clinical trials

Software/figures/tables

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Wikipedia citations

Web-based metrics unearth…

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Some numbers/reminders to

consider…

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20-25%30-35%

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Most articles have very little or

no online attentionno

very little

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Altmetrics speak to attention

not quality.not

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or

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Attention can be positive,

negative, or neutral.neutralnegative

positive

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Only a qualitative assessment of

the actual mention…

Uncovers new audiences,

collaborators, and opportunities…

qualitative

mention

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Meet Terri

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Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor, Duke University

Chair in Social Behaviour and Development, Kings College London

Terrie is best known for her pioneering research on the development of antisocial behavior and for her collaboration with colleague and partner Avshalom Caspi in research on gene-environment interactions in mental disorders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrie_Moffitt

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Grant funder demands

taking weeks of lab time…

There had to be a better way….

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She learned overnight…

…of her overwhelming reach

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She learned overnight…

She was in the top 1%

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She learned overnight…

Her top article had global engagement

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She learned overnight…

Her work was positively received…

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In the news…blogs…social

media…research commentary

platforms…

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In the news…blogs…social

media…research commentary

platforms…

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In the news…blogs…social

media…research commentary

platforms…

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In the news…blogs…social

media…research commentary

platforms…

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Relative to the other research outputs

Altmetric tracks…

Her research was amongst the most mentioned…in the entire database

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Relative to the other research outputs

Altmetric tracks…

Her research was amongst the most mentioned…by journal

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Relative to the other research outputs

Altmetric tracks…

Her research was amongst the most mentioned…by articles of the same age

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Relative to the other research outputs

Altmetric tracks…

Her research was amongst the most mentioned…by articles of the same age in PNAS

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Beyond grants…what else did Terri

do with this data?

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Her lab was looking to listen

and amplify

listen

amplify

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She provided new web-based

metrics for her grad students

and post-docs

Facilitating recognition early career researchers rarely get

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Her team anticipated negative

reactions to controversial

findings…

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They actively monitored specific

blogs, tracking commenters’

feedback

Quickly identifying another lab critiquing their data and methods…

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“Qualitative Altmetric data gave us the opportunity to be collegial by bringing these critiques to our attention.”

collegialQualitative

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Terri’s lab has since reached out

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Offering to

share data

And collaborate on a future paper…

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She’s not the only one…

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Review grant

applications

Augment tenure

& promotion

Discover trending

content

Uncover potential new

collaboratorsUnderstand engaging

audiences

Evaluate quality of outreach

efforts

Stay ahead of potential

PR fires

Determine new

channels for reaching

stakeholders

Evaluate gaps in

reach

Demonstrate “broader”

or “societal” impact

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What can these new metrics do

for your organization, your

members, your readers, and your

stakeholders?

Learn more at altmetric.com, @altmetric, or [email protected]

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@[email protected]

All illustrations by Jean Liu @jeandraws

Thanks for listening!