Evolving altmetrics to capture impact outside the academy

Presentation given as part of the "Altmetrics as indicators of economic and social impact" panel at the 2AM Altmetrics Conference (http://www.altmetricsconference.com/schedule/) in Amsterdam on October 7th, 2015.

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1. Juan Pablo Alperin
   Altmetrics Conference, 2AM
   @juancommander
   Evolving altmetrics to
   capture impact outside
   the academy
   

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2. there are still some important
   unanswered questions
   but...
   after
   5 years,
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3. for example...
   

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4. what are we measuring?
   we have been counting things,
   have looked at correlations, and
   made educated inferences
   

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5. altmetrics ≠ citations
   mostly, we just know
   

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6. BFD
   hey! guess what!?
   its why we have alt in the name!
   

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7. reward engagement
   with different communities
   for me, the
   point is to
   

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8. who?
   will it change who participates?
   is it just academics talking with one another?
   is the work reaching new audiences?
   who is that having so
   much fun discussing reseach?
   

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9. so we need to know:
   • where do they work?
   • what are they doing with the research?
   • what was their motivation for engaging?
   • what do they think is the social impact?
   • and all sorts of other socio-demographics
   

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10. otherwise:
    why do we care?
    were we not done with metrics after the whole IF debacle?
    

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11. Genius
    

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12. ASK!
    

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13. lazy developer
    

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16. 6397 Twitter accounts had linked to SciELO article
    6093 were still active (this was 2 years later)
    286 responded (5%)
    ok. not so great.
    

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18. 36% !!
    

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25. the numbers are
    not enough.
    

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26. reach out (I am not actually a bot):
    @juancommander
    thank you.
    

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