1. Andy Tattersall
@andy_tattersall

2. Who is behind Altmetrics How you can get involved with using them
Talk overview
What are Altmetrics
Who is behind Altmetrics
How you can get involved with using them

3. Do you use any of these?

4. And these?

5. Do you recognise these?

6. http://www. theguardian

7. Academia is changing forever
MOOCs
Open Access
Impact
Big Data
Altmetrics

8. The dissemination and communication of research is changing
Presentations and seminars
Funding and ethics applications
Academic books
Journal articles and posters
Term papers and essays
Meetings and conferences
Correspondence
Open access
Supplementary data
Online reference managers
Press
Post-publication peer-review
Social media
Blogs

9. Traditional metrics struggle to reflect this
Slow to accrue
Focus mostly on published articles
Published
June 2014:
Starting to impact the behaviour of academics

10. Development of altmetrics (alternative indicators)
to complement, not replace traditional metrics
help people understand how research is being received and used, and by who
not intended as an indicator of quality
can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal impact’
give credit for research outputs other than articles

11. So, what are they?

12. And who provides them?

13. What Altmetrics look at

14. Policy documents AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Food and Agriculture Organization
GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Mental Health Foundation (UK) - NEW
NICE Evidence
UNESCO
World Health Organization (WHO)
More being added each week…

15. Digging in to the data

16. Demographics Twitter data from bio’s
Mendeley data based on who has saved the article to their library - anonymised

17. The Altmetric score and donut
developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received
not an indicator of quality of the research!
useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once

18. Context

19. Publisher uses

20. And funders...

21. Librarian access Free Altmetric Explorer accounts
Search for data on any article, from any publisher
Share with researchers or admins

22. Altmetric for Institutions

23. Explore your institution

24. Reporting save search filters set up automated email alerts
export to excel, or reports on individual articles
API output
set up direct links into other systems

25. Who can use the data?

26. Institutional repositories
free donut badge embeds
just 2 lines of code: api.altmetric.com
helps encourage deposits
collates attention from all versions

27. Researchers
altmetric.it

28. Details pages alerts

30. Impact Story

31. Kudos

33. Metrics Categories USAGE CAPTURES MENTIONS SOCIAL MEDIA CITATIONS
(clicks, downloads, views, library holdings, video plays)
CAPTURES
(bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers)
MENTIONS
(blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links)
SOCIAL MEDIA
(+1s, likes, shares, tweets)
CITATIONS
(PubMed Central, Scopus, patents)

34. Concerns about gaming and misinterpretation
All of Altmetric.com’s data is auditable
They don’t show things like Facebook likes
Systems in place to flag up suspect activity

37. The research process Measure and discuss the research Have an idea
Search for research
Publish and
disseminate
the research
Filter and
review the
research

38. The research process and you
LIS Professionals
experts in measurement,
bibliometrics,
work in neutral role
LIS Professionals host, catalogue and search published research
Measure and
discuss the research
Have an idea
Search for research
Publish and
disseminate
the research
Filter and
review the
research
LIS Professionals
experts in publishing and communication.
OA, Social Media, blogging
LIS Professionals carry out systematic and literature reviews from search results

39. Where the LIS professional fits in
Searching
Appraising
Filtering
Impartial
Flexible
Helpful
Networked
Centrally based
Indexing
Communications
Technologist
Social Media
Bibliometrics

40. ''All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move''.
Benjamin Franklin

41. Getting academics to the waterhole
Images CC BY Whatleydude Kyknoord

42. #Understand Their way of working - long periods doing the same thing
Their concerns
Pressure to publish research
Their fears
May not be used to Social Media or
technology for that matter
How busy they are
What they can get out of
Altmetrics
and what you can do to help them
Image CC BY Glen Edelson

43. #Demystify Explain that Altmetrics are not
about Justin Bieber’s Tweets to
his Beliebers
That using tools like Altmetrics,
Mendeley, Twitter and ImpactStory
will show them where their research
is reaching globally
Help build case studies to
show what is out there
Show junior researchers and
students that their research and
profile will benefit
Image CC BY Sarah

44. #Train Bite size sessions Workshops Image CC BY Sarah Video tutorials
Webinars
Hangouts
Image CC BY Sarah
Image CC BY Michael Young

45. #Champion
Look to see who on your campus uses technology and social media
Take them for a coffee
Get them to present a session on how they use it
Image CC BY edwin.11

46. #Network Seek out natural allies
Impact and research support, open access advocates, MOOCsters,
library and information professionals, technicians,
learning technologists,
communications and marketing
Image CC BY Bruno Girin

47. #Practice

48. New era for peer review?

49. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/ (Last Accessed 14/10/2014)

51. https://theconversation.com/profiles/tom-stafford-91781/articles

56. Thank you @andy_tattersall
Thanks at Altmetric.com for use of slides 8-34.