Getting Altmetrics: What and who to consider

Presentation given at the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) annual meeting in St. Catherine's, Ontario, May 24, 2014.

Summary:
Some practical aspects of implementing altmetrics for journals.

Transcript

1. Getting Altmetrics: what and who to consider Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander
2. so...
3. you want metrics
4. OPTIONS CHOICES
5. ALT-ernatives!!
8. Not going to talk about $$ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/1165387142/
10. • Usage • Captures • Mentions • Social Media • Citations sources/categories • Viewed • Saved • Discussed • Recommended • Cited • Twitter • Other Social Media • News • Blogs • Multimedia • Reference Managers
11. implementation options widget API
12. widgets Altmetric.com √ ImpactStory x PlumAnalytics √ PLOS ALM x
13. APIs Altmetric.com √ by DOI ImpactStory √ by profile (would need to make a profile for the journal, not ideal) PlumAnalytics √ by DOI or other ID PLOS ALM √ by DOI
14. APIs you get flexibility in how you display metrics sometimes code is already written (no extra work) +
15. http://openclipart.org caveats
18. or other identifiers: pmid, arXiv id, etc..
19. cc: hryckowian
20. DOIs this makes it easy but also error prone → URLs
22. PRO-tip http://yourjournalurl.org/article/10.1234/putthedoiintheurl
24. low signal
26. usage (downloads) DIY these are still
27. of course...
28. is the answer
30. thank you.