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Altmetrics to track impact of datasets

Creating Your Research Impact Story (eResearch Australasia Workshop)Pat Loria, Manager Information Services, Charles Sturt University Library27 October 2014



Why track dataset impact?



Just some dataset impact metrics & sources

Data Metrics Sources Metrics (not mapped to Sources column)

Citation Databases Citations & Mentions

Scholarly Publishers Bookmarks & Favourites

Altmetrics Aggregators Followers

Source-Code Sharing Platforms (GitHub...) Reuses

Data Sharing Platforms (Dryad, Figshare...) Ratings & Recommendations

Institutional and Subject Repositories Views & Downloads

Researcher Networking Sites (Mendeley...) Likes & Shares

Networking Sites (Delicious, Pinterest...) Tweets & Comments

Adapted from Stacy Konkiel, Tracking the impacts of data – beyond citations, e-Science Community Blog, 16 Oct 2014.



Traditional sources of dataset impact



Newer sources of dataset impact



Aggregators of dataset impact



Potential sources of dataset impact



Beware: Impact Silo Fatigue!

Silos image: http://www.michaelleander.me/blog/silo-silo-in-the-game-who-is-the-prettiest-or-are-we-the-same/

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/citation-help-resources-make-citing.html



Impact embedded in IRs

Source: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/chm_facpubs/1/

Data Views?

Dataset?



Using an impact dashboard



Track engagement with a dataset



Report by individual, group, institution



Research info management system



Researcher profiles



Saving time for the researcher



Possibilities...



Thank youPat Loria @pat_loria