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

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1. Exploring altmetrics in an emerging country context JUAN PABLO ALPERIN @JUANCOMMANDER
2. like nowhere else ~5000 peer-reviewed journals 90-95% Latin American journals are freely available 74% of what is in Scopus @JUANCOMMANDER
3. REGIONAL INITIATIVES @REDESCIELO @REDALYC #LATINDEX @JUANCOMMANDER regional initiatives three regional portals
4. Brazil case study @JUANCOMMANDER
5. 2000+ journals @JUANCOMMANDER
6. 267 in SciELO.br @JUANCOMMANDER
7. 21000+ articles published in 2013 @JUANCOMMANDER
8. FREE to download @JUANCOMMANDER
9. FREE to read @JUANCOMMANDER
10. altmetrics enter @JUANCOMMANDER
11. low signal problem for developing world research @JUANCOMMANDER
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
13. COVERAGE FOR EACH METRIC BY JOURNAL OVERALL IT IS LOW, BUT A LOT OF VARIANCE @JUANCOMMANDER
14. YET THERE IS INTEREST IN FIRST 90 DAYS, 50% RECEIVE > 150 DOWNLOADS, 25% RECEIVE > 235 DOWNLOADS
15. IT VARIES BY SUBJECT ALTHOUGH NOT ALL THAT MUCH @JUANCOMMANDER
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
17. so... why is it so low?
18. DO YOU USUALLY SHARE ARTICLES ON SOCIAL MEDIA N=5,358 no 58.0% yes 42.0% @JUANCOMMANDER
19. DO YOU USUALLY SHARE ARTICLES ON SOCIAL MEDIA N=1,926 @JUANCOMMANDER Yes 8% 71% Facebook Twitter
20. hipothesis different class of users @JUANCOMMANDER second
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
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
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
24. 25% non-academic use @JUANCOMMANDER
25. That is kind of a LOT @JUANCOMMANDER
26. there is significant public use but no sign they are generating altmetrics @JUANCOMMANDER
27. back @JUANCOMMANDER which brings me to
28. low signal @JUANCOMMANDER
29. not just brazil brazil is actually more represented @JUANCOMMANDER and
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%
31. there is alternative use @JUANCOMMANDER
32. not captured by altmetrics but @JUANCOMMANDER
33. yet @JUANCOMMANDER
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.