Altmetrics: Documenting the Story of Research

Collister, Lauren; Deliyannides, Timothy S.

doi:10.7771/2380-176x.7267

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“…views and downloads) for over 52.6 million artifacts (Ortega 2018b;Plum Analytics 2018). PlumX provides alternative metrics (altmetrics) to view reader impact from an academic institution, individual programs, or individual faculty members (Collier & Deliyannides 2016). Account administrators create profiles in PlumX for individual researchers or groups, including images and biographical and contact information (Champieux 2015).…”

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Use of Altmetrics to Analyze ScholarWorks in Natural Resource Management

Kulhavy

Reynolds

Unger

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Digital preservation of library materials has increased the need for methods to access the documents and contents maintained in digital archives. The use of altmetrics to quantify the impact of scholarly works, including PlumX, is increasing readership by listing articles in reference services. The outreach from the digital repository ScholarWorks at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) highlights the impact within the natural resources community from Digital Commons, Forest Sciences Commons; and from the Natural Products Chemistry and Pharmacognosy Commons. The use of PlumX altmetrics was examined to evaluate usage, impact, and digital audience downloads for the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture (ATCOFA) at SFASU.

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Section: Plumx Altmetricsmentioning

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“…PlumX altmetrics use downloads over time and referrals to the digital preservation system (Collier & Deliyannides 2016;Wong & Vital 2017;Bar-Ilan et al 2019). Altmetrics data are the aggregated views, mentions, downloads, shares, discussions, and recommendations of research outputs across the scholarly web (Fenner 2014).…”

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Use of Altmetrics to Analyze ScholarWorks in Natural Resource Management

Kulhavy

Reynolds

Unger

et al. 2020

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“…From a socio-technological vantage, how might increasing the transparency of the algorithms underlying altmetrics influence academics' adoption and use of these new tools? (Manca, 2018 (Collister and Deliyannides, 2016).…”

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“…PlumX locates and compiles data on multiple types of artifacts, including articles, case studies, abstracts, books, book chapters, data sets, videos from Youtube, Slideshare, Vimeo, Figshare, GitHub, audio recordings, figures, government documents, images, musical scores and maps (Collister and Deliyannides, 2016;Lindsay, 2016). Articles can be identified by a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, URL and/or patent numbers (Rathemacher, 2014;Torres-Salinas et al, 2017).…”

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“…As the value of scholarship is amplified through digital networks, blogs, news outlets and social media, altmetrics provide empirical documentation of connections between scholars, academic research and public audiences (Williams, 2017a); Plum Analytics help contextualize scholarly work. While some altmetric products use only a numerical scoring system, PlumX uses multiple forms of qualitative, descriptive and comparative data to illustrate various dimensions of impact (Collister and Deliyannides, 2016); Plum Analytics facilitate deeper exploration of research by providing direct links to the digital platforms and external settings in which research appears (Rathemacher, 2014); Plum Analytics is based on algorithms that can lessen errors introduced by manual data entry processes; Plum Analytics has a large user base. As of October 2016, Plum Analytics had 52.6 million individual pieces of research output and had accrued 9.4 billion individual researcher interactions (Crosby, 2016).…”

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Exploring the utility of an emerging altmetric platform: a SWOT analysis of Plum Analytics

Williams

2019

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Altmetric scores: short-term popularity or long-term scientific importance

Starbuck

Purtee

2017

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on a three-year case study of the extent with which altmetrics compare to traditional metrics in certain subject areas for selected departments at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine (COM). Design/methodology/approachA three-year analysis of peer-reviewed papers and invited editorials from 2009 to 2013 written by tenure-track faculty from 20 COM departments was done to explore what subject areas received the highest altmetric scores. Research output was searched in PubMed; articles were quantified by subject area, times cited in Scopus, and its altmetric score over each of three successive years. FindingsThe topics of the highest scored altmetric papers (n = 40) sample focused on stroke, obesity, and diabetes for all three years. Analysis of high initial altmetric scores over the course of the three years shifted from a possible predictor of future impact in the second year to no indicator of long-term interest in the scientific community as the public interest waned over time. Research limitations/implicationsThe authors used Scopus Times Cited and Altmetrics.com to gather data. Originality/valueInitially assessed a total of 3,678 unique publications and worked with the 40 highest altmetric scores in subsequent years. Data showed that subjects of interest to the public receive the highest altmetric scores and the topic areas did not change over the course of the study. These initially high altmetric scores do not indicate long-term interest by the scientific community.

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Altmetrics: Documenting the Story of Research

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Use of Altmetrics to Analyze ScholarWorks in Natural Resource Management

Use of Altmetrics to Analyze ScholarWorks in Natural Resource Management

Exploring the utility of an emerging altmetric platform: a SWOT analysis of Plum Analytics

Altmetric scores: short-term popularity or long-term scientific importance

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