Research impact and library support Molly Strothmann University Libraries

What are Citation Metrics? Statistics on the number of times books, journals, or articles have been cited in other publications. Used as a measure of the influence of articles, journals, or authors. Can be tracked at the Journal level – how influential is this publication? Author level – how influential is this researcher? Item level – how influential is this article?

What are altmetrics? Altmetrics = alternative metrics Alternative to ? Measuring impact using scholarly citations alone. “altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship.” Source: altmetrics.org “Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments.” Source: Priem J., Groth P., and Taraborelli D. (2012). The altmetrics collection. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48753.

Library support Metrics guide: http://guides.ou.edu/metrics Research impact reports: https://libraries.ou.edu/content/measuring-research-impact

Questions? Molly Strothmann Social & Behavioral Sciences Librarian Collections Manager mstrothmann@ou.edu http://guides.ou.edu/metrics