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Exploring Altmetrics in an emerging country context

Exploring Altmetrics in an emerging country context

Presentation from the Altmetrics14 workshop, Web Science Conference, Bloomington, IN, June 23, 2014.

See extended abstract on Figshare.

Alperin, Juan Pablo (2014): Exploring altmetrics in an emerging country context. figshare.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1041797

Juan Pablo Alperin

June 23, 2014
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  1. Exploring altmetrics
    in an emerging country context
    JUAN PABLO ALPERIN
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  2. like nowhere
    else
    ~5000 peer-reviewed
    journals
    90-95% Latin American
    journals are freely available
    74% of what is in Scopus
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  3. REGIONAL INITIATIVES
    @REDESCIELO @REDALYC #LATINDEX @JUANCOMMANDER
    regional
    initiatives
    three regional portals

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  4. Brazil
    case study
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  5. 2000+
    journals
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  6. 267
    in SciELO.br
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  7. 21000+
    articles published in 2013
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  8. FREE
    to download
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  9. FREE
    to read
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  10. altmetrics
    enter
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  11. low signal
    problem for developing
    world research
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  12. peer_reviews
    linkedin
    reddit
    pinterest
    f1000
    q&a
    video
    English Wikpedia
    Spanish Wikipedia
    news
    Portuguese Wikipedia
    blogs
    googleplus
    facebook
    citations
    twitter
    mendeley
    0 2.25 4.5 6.75 9
    8.8%
    6.07%
    3.78%
    2.84%
    0.06%
    0.04%
    0.02%
    0.01%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    0%
    COVERAGE OF VARIOUS ALTMETRICS SOURCES
    ALL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN SCIELO.BR IN 2013 (N=21,201) @JUANCOMMANDER

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  13. COVERAGE FOR EACH METRIC BY JOURNAL
    OVERALL IT IS LOW, BUT A LOT OF VARIANCE @JUANCOMMANDER

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  14. YET THERE IS INTEREST
    IN FIRST 90 DAYS, 50% RECEIVE > 150 DOWNLOADS, 25% RECEIVE > 235 DOWNLOADS

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  15. IT VARIES BY SUBJECT
    ALTHOUGH NOT ALL THAT MUCH @JUANCOMMANDER

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  16. THEY DO NOT EACH TELL US THE SAME THING
    SPEARMAN CORRELATION BETWEEN MAIN METRICS
    twitter facebook citations mendeley downloads30 downloads90
    twitter
    facebook
    citations
    mendeley
    downloads30
    downloads90
    -- 0.21 0.01 0.03 0.22 0.20
    0.21 -- 0.03 0.01 0.15 0.16
    0.01 0.03 -- 0.05 0.07 0.07
    0.03 0.01 0.05 -- 0.11 0.13
    0.22 0.15 0.07 0.11 -- 0.84
    0.20 0.16 0.07 0.13 0.84 --
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  17. so...
    why is it so low?

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  18. DO YOU USUALLY SHARE ARTICLES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
    N=5,358
    no
    58.0%
    yes
    42.0%
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  19. DO YOU USUALLY SHARE ARTICLES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
    N=1,926 @JUANCOMMANDER
    Yes
    8%
    71%
    Facebook Twitter

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  20. hipothesis
    different class of users
    @JUANCOMMANDER
    second

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  21. I AM INTERESTED IN THIS ARTICLE BECAUSE I AM RESEARCHING
    N=16,290
    other
    0.3%
    for professional reasons
    13.6%
    I am not not researching
    2.0%
    for personal reasons
    5.1%
    for academic reasons
    79.0%
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  22. I AM INTERESTED IN THIS ARTICLE FOR:
    N=17,589
    professional practice (public sector)
    7%
    professional practice (private sector)
    5%
    professional practice (non-profit sector)
    4%
    personal interest
    8%
    other
    1%
    my job at a university
    56%
    a class (I am a student)
    20%
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  23. I WORK IN:
    N=29,322
    in the public sector
    3%
    in the private sector
    5%
    in the non-profit sector
    1%
    other
    6%
    I am not currently working
    3%
    a university
    30%
    I am a student
    52%
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  24. 25%
    non-academic use
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  25. That is kind of a
    LOT
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  26. there is
    significant
    public use
    but no sign they are generating altmetrics
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  27. back
    @JUANCOMMANDER
    which brings me
    to

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  28. low
    signal
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  29. not just brazil
    brazil is actually more represented
    @JUANCOMMANDER
    and

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  30. AND BRAZIL IS EXCEPTIONAL IN LATIN AMERICA
    ITS MUCH HIGHER THAN THE OTHER COUNTRIES (SCIELO ARTICLES FROM 2013)
    country
    N
    arg bra chl col cri cub mex per ven
    2212 21883 4285 4749 486 2356 3342 663 456
    blog
    delicious
    fbwall
    gplus
    linkedin
    msm
    pinterest
    qna
    tweet
    video
    mendeley
    en_wiki
    es_wiki
    pt_wiki
    wiki
    0% 0.02% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0.32% 2.56% 0.21% 0.02% 0% 0% 0.15% 0.6% 0%
    0% 0.07% 0.02% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    2.53% 5.32% 3.59% 0.59% 0.41% 1.57% 0.99% 1.96% 0.88%
    0% 0.02% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    4.7% 18.36% 15.47% 8.89% 13.58% 5.9% 10.77% 5.28% 3.95%
    0% 0.02% 0.05% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0.09% 0.01% 0.05% 0% 0.21% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    0% 0.04% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0.03% 0% 0%
    0.09% 0.08% 0.09% 0% 0.21% 0% 0.03% 0% 0%

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  31. there is
    alternative
    use
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  32. not captured by
    altmetrics
    but
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  33. yet
    @JUANCOMMANDER

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  34. This research was supported by the project "Quality in the Open Scholarly
    Communication of Latin America". IDRC Grant reference number: 106660-001.
    Data was provided by SciELO and Altmetric.com in early 2014. Thanks to Fabio
    Batalha (SciELO) and Euan Adie (altmetric.com).
    thank you.

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