How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impact William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach
...and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data… Install Mendeley Desktop Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
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Shared Folder
Read papers + keep track of notes 470M documents
Taking some misery out of writing
Mendeley Research Catalog
New forms of discovery Mendeley Suggest –personalized recommendations based on reading history related articles –relatedness based on document similarity recommender frameworks –implement recommendations as a service third-party recommender services –serve niche audiences
Information Extraction
We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud
Connecting researchers Search Read Annotate Organize Write Import
Data we collect Metadata about the paper –title, author, tags, annotations, reads, shares, groups Metadata about the researcher –discipline, educational status, country, papers they’ve authored, presentations, expertise
2.7M researchers
Defining readership Each document addition is a “read” stamped with metadata describing the context of the read event a read is like a citation, but faster and captures more
research impacts more than authors
Citations are slow
Mendeley is fast
Readership vs. citations it comes with a payload of metadata it accrues faster it illuminates previously hidden impact
altmetrics show broader impact
altmetrics show broader impact
Issues To Be Addressed Identity Privacy Attribution Gaming Filtration standards/ best practice
What would people build if they could get the data? Impact Story – get credit for all your work PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries (EBSCO) Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (Digital Science)