1. Altmetrics for the humanities – Disciplines, output types, and discovery in the wild Jeremy L. McLaughlin, San Jose State University & Stacy Konkiel, altmetric.com SIG AH & SIG VIS Panel Presentation – ASIST 2015 Annual Meeting

2. What are altmetrics ?

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6. Altmetrics as complements to citations Altmetrics Instant Scholarly, public, educational, political, economic & other impacts Apply to all scholarly outputs Citations Months to years Scholarly impact Apply mostly to articles

7. Most altmetrics research to date… …studies the sciences …is concerned with journal articles …measures correlations with citations

8. Humanities research is different Outputs Books Articles Textual datasets Poetry Reviews Exhibition catalogs Images Videos Audio files Measures of impact Prestige of press Peer-review status Prizes & awards Mass media contributions Presentations Sometimes citations

9. Altmetrics are good for the humanities More engagement on Wikipedia (Ehman, Large & Beheshti, 2008) More likely to use social media in their research (Rowlands et al, 2011) Higher Mendeley readership than citation counts (Mohammadi & Thelwall, 2014) Higher coverage on social media than in citation databases (Haustein, Costas & Larivière, 2015)

10. Humanities content from figshare 5,564 unique outputs 20 arts & humanities disciplines 9 document types (papers, posters, datasets) January 2012 to July 14, 2015

11. Humanities content from figshare Figshare output types NumberPercent Total 5564100 Code 11.2 Dataset 373867.2 Figure 1592.9 Fileset 1833.3 Media 25.4 Paper 118721.3 Poster 731.3 Presentation 1332.4 Thesis 551.0

12. Altmetric counts for humanities content 622 with social media attention 1,364 with figshare attention Final analysis = 1,467 3,578 outputs with no attention

13. Year published # outputs on Figshare Percentage of outputs with Altmetric scores 201212124% 201357016% 2014333811% 2015153510% Altmetric counts for humanities content

14. # likes% likes# down% downBlog #Blog %Twitter #Twitter %G+ #G+ %FB #FB % TOTAL1467100%55737.97%118780.91%714.84%57439.13%614.16%463.14% Not used (low): Reddit, news sites, Wikipedia, and Sina Weibo Mendeley: Discrepancy in counts from Altmetric.com data source No counts: CiteULike, Faculty of 1000, Pinterest, etc… Data Citation Index (DCI) – no scores

15. Characteristics of outputs with attention

16. 27% of outputs with attention 31% likes 36% Tweeters 43% total downloads

17. Characteristics of outputs with attention Most downloaded filesets & dataset Most blog mentions presentations Most tweeted posters & presentations

18. Characteristics of outputs with attention

19. Characteristics of outputs with attention (keywords)

20. Takeaway for humanists Proactively engage with the right demographics on the right platforms

21. Altmetrics for the humanities – Disciplines, outputs, and discovery in the wild Thank you! Jeremy L. McLaughlin, San Jose State University Jeremy.mclaughlin@sjsu.edueremy.mclaughlin@sjsu.edu Stacy Konkiel, altmetric.com stacy@altmetric.com

22. Breaking traditional barriers: Collaboration, impact, and information technology in the humanities Thank you! Questions/Comments??