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Altmetrics: Analyzing the value in scholarly content

William Gunn
November 08, 2012

Altmetrics: Analyzing the value in scholarly content

Presentation to the 2012 Charleston Conference

William Gunn

November 08, 2012
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  1. Altmetrics: Analyzing the value
    in scholarly content
    William Gunn
    Head of Academic Outreach
    [email protected]
    @mrgunn

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  2. Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates
    and software developers from...
    ...backed by co-founders and
    former executives of:
    Supported by:

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  3. ...and aggregates research
    data in the cloud
    Mendeley makes science more collaborative and
    transparent:
    Mendeley extracts
    research data…
    Collecting rich signals
    from domain experts.

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  4. Instrumenting the Research
    Workflow
    Search
    Read
    Annotate
    Organize
    Write
    Import

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  5. Rich user profile data

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  6. 300 million documents uploaded
    2.0 million users
    Cambridge
    Stanford University
    MIT
    Imperial College London
    University of Oxford
    Harvard University
    University of Michigan
    University College London
    University of California at Berkeley
    Columbia University

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  7. Why are altmetrics
    important?
     Get better data on what's
    working
     Get it faster
     Serve all the stakeholders in
    research

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  8. Research is poor quality
     Amgen: 47 of 53 “landmark” oncology publications
    could not be reproduced.
     Bayer: 43 of 67 oncology & cardiovascular projects were
    based on contradictory results
     Dr. John Ioannidis: 432 publications purporting sex
    differences in hypertension, multiple sclerosis, or lung
    cancer. Only one data set was reproducible.

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  9. We didn’t see that a target is
    more likely to be validated if it
    was reported in ten publications
    or in two publications
    NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY 10, 712 (SEPTEMBER 2011)

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  10. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/fireflythegreat/2845637227/

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  11. Journal Impact Factor
    Number of citations
    Citeable items
    = Impact Factor

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  12. Problems with Impact Factor

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  13. Problems with Impact Factor

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  14. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030291
    Problems with Impact Factor
    “During discussions with Thomson
    Scientific over which article types
    the company deems as “citable,” it
    became clear that the process of
    determining a journal's impact
    factor is unscientific and
    arbitrary.”

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  15. Research is too slow

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  16. Google Analytics for research

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  17. Google Analytics for research

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  18. Google Analytics for research

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  19. ReaderMeter.org
    Personalized Impact

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  20. Personalized Impact

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  23. We’re in this for the long haul
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertjosiah/4519389115

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  24. Join Mendeley for Librarians
    This is a private librarian-only group for members to share
    presentations and documents. Send a message to
    [email protected] for an invitation.

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