Article Level Metrics: A research impact footprint

Slides from my presentation at the PLoS reception during ASM 2012 in San Francisco.

Transcript

1. Article Level Metrics: A Research Impact Footprint Martin Fenner http://www.flickr.com/photos/boegh/5676497233/
2. Scientometrics is the science of measuring and analysing science with citation analysis as an important tool.
3. Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a comprehensive and multi- dimensional suite of transparent and established metrics at the article level. http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/alm-info/
4. altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. http://altmetrics.org/about/
5. Post-publication peer review is the process whereby scientific studies are absorbed into the body of knowledge. Richard Smith http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/04/06/ richard-smith-what-is-post-publication- peer-review/
6. Information overload. It‘s not filter failure, it is a discovery deficit. Cameron Neylon http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/ its-not-filter-failure-its-a-discovery-deficit
7. Attention is the new currency. Kristen Ratan http://www.slideshare.net/kristenratan/ metrics-the-new-black
8. The PLoS ALM project was started in 2009 and tracks usage, citations and the social web activity for all PLoS articles.
9. I started working for the PLoS ALM project one month ago.
10. Today I want to focus on future ALM developments. I will start with some ideas and hope for a great discussion.
11. Shifting emphasis from the collection to the understanding of article-level metrics.
12. Stronger focus on the formal and informal discussion of an article.
13. Generate context for ALM by comparing the numbers to similar articles – e.g. from the same subject category.
14. Add visualizations that explain ALM much better than numbers.
15. Add search to ALM to find articles based on metrics.
16. Personalize ALM for readers and authors.
17. Allow readers to actively interact with ALM: comments, bookmarks, links, etc.
18. The attention received by an article can be evaluated and used both by authors and the journal for improvements.
19. Equally important, help with the adoption of ALM by other journals, institutions and funders.
20. This presentation can be copied and distributed provided that proper credit is given. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.