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

Transcript

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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