Altmetrics: Analyzing the value in scholarly content

Presentation to the 2012 Charleston Conference

Transcript

1. Altmetrics: Analyzing the value in scholarly content William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach william.gunn@mendeley.com @mrgunn
2. Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from... ...backed by co-founders and former executives of: Supported by:
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.
4. Instrumenting the Research Workflow Search Read Annotate Organize Write Import
5. Rich user profile data
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
7. Why are altmetrics important?  Get better data on what's working  Get it faster  Serve all the stakeholders in research
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.
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)
10. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/fireflythegreat/2845637227/
11. Journal Impact Factor Number of citations Citeable items = Impact Factor
12. Problems with Impact Factor
13. Problems with Impact Factor
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.”
15. Research is too slow
16. Google Analytics for research
17. Google Analytics for research
18. Google Analytics for research
19. ReaderMeter.org Personalized Impact
20. Personalized Impact
23. We’re in this for the long haul http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertjosiah/4519389115
24. Join Mendeley for Librarians This is a private librarian-only group for members to share presentations and documents. Send a message to community@mendeley.com for an invitation.