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Measuring Research: Impact Factors, Citation Metrics, and "Altmetrics" Can Tweets be more important than a good Impact Factor? Thane Chambers Christina Hwang Denis Lacroix Dale Storie

Who Cited Whom? Citation tracking is a traditional measure of research impact: Measure the research output of an author Measure the popularity or influence of a journal or article.

Metrics can measure: Journal-level metric: o Impact Factor, Eigenfactor, SJR, SNIP Author-level metric: o h-index, i10-index Article or book-level metrics: o citation counts, "altmetrics"

Impact Factor “calculated by dividing the number of citations in the [Journal Citation Reports] year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years”

Impact Factor: # of citations in 2011 _______________________________ # of articles published in 2009 & 2010

Journal Citation Reports Exercise: What is the Impact Factor for o New England Journal of Medicine o Nature o Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Find the history journal with the highest Impact Factor?

h-index If you have 5 papers with 5 citations, your h- index = 5.

h-index Benefits longer careers o A scientist who has been working in the field for 30 years will have a higher index than someone with 10 years. Can be used to compare scholars at similar points in their career who publish in the same discipline.

Scopus/Web of Science/Google Scholar Exercise What is the h-index for: Faith Davis (Public Health Sciences) Mike Belosevic (Biological Sciences) Andy Knight (Humanities)

Importance of citation metrics Determine influence of a journal (Impact Factor), author, publication. Faculty evaluation, promotion, merit, tenure Grant applications

Case Study: Faculty of Nursing

Altmetrics New metrics made possible by the Web and open access: o # of downloads o # of Tweets o # of Shares in social media services, including academic tools such as Mendeley or CiteULike.

Altmetrics impactstory.com altmetrics.org Public Library of Science (PLoS) article-level metrics

Denis Lacroix A LTMETRICS FOR THE H UMANITIES AND S OCIAL S CIENCES

Only a fraction of HSS journals have an impact factor Fields of study in the humanities are often small Humanities publishing takes on many forms  Book Citation Index Book Citation Index  Google Scholar / Publish or PerishPublish or Perish  Search bibliographies in databases for cited works (e.g. CAIRN, Erudit) Authority control  Crossref.org’s Cited-by linking  Researcher ID (Thomson Reuters) A LTMETRICS FOR C ITATION P ROJECT

Social Web: PLOS, Mendeley, CiteULike, Facebook, Twitter, Research blogging, Wikipedia, SlideShare…  Impact Story (  Altmetric Explorer ( & Altmetric It bookmarkletwww.altmetric.comAltmetric It  ReaderMeter – Mendeley altmetrics ( A LTMETRICS AND THE S OCIAL W EB

Citations no longer represent adequately how an article is used (NISO Webinar: Beyond Publish or Perish: Alternative Metrics for Scholarship)  Document downloading and viewing  Academia.edu  SSRN (Social Science Research Network)  Mendeley: metrics on views & downloads  VIVO: Semantic Web Application  Library ownership of faculty publications  OCLC WorldCat C ITATION A NALYSIS AND THE HUMANITIES

F OR MORE I NFORMATION Hammerfelt, Bjorn. Following the Footnotes: A Bibliometric Analysis of Citation Patterns in Literary Studies. PhD Thesis. Uppsala Universitet, Howard, Jennifer. “Tracking Scholarly Influence Beyond the Impact Factor.” Chronicle of Higher Education. Wired Campus (28 Feb. 2012). Web. Roemer, Robin Chin and Rachel Borchadt. “From Bibliometrics to altmetrics: A Changing Scholarly Landscape.” College & Research Libraries News (Nov. 2012): Priem, Jason. Jason Priem / Home. Web. 3 Dec Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen. Web. 3 Dec Wouter, Paul. Citation Culture. Web. 3 Dec

Exercise Use: Impactstory.org, readermeter.org or altmetrics bookmarklet Watson/Crick article on DNA: /171737a0 Straus article on Knowledge Translation /cmaj

Caveats and cautions Citations are not always received for valid reasons Self-citation Database coverage o h-index will be different in Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar o Humanities not covered well in citation databases