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.

Transcript

1. Juan Pablo Alperin Altmetrics Conference, 2AM @juancommander Evolving altmetrics to capture impact outside the academy
2. there are still some important unanswered questions but... after 5 years, ????????????????????????????? ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
3. for example...
4. what are we measuring? we have been counting things, have looked at correlations, and made educated inferences
5. altmetrics ≠ citations mostly, we just know
6. BFD hey! guess what!? its why we have alt in the name!
7. reward engagement with different communities for me, the point is to
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?
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
10. otherwise: why do we care? were we not done with metrics after the whole IF debacle?
11. Genius
12. ASK!
13. lazy developer
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.
18. 36% !!
25. the numbers are not enough.
26. reach out (I am not actually a bot): @juancommander thank you.