Introduction to Altmetrics for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians

Galloway, Linda; Pease, Janet; Rauh, Anne

doi:10.1080/0194262x.2013.829762

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“…Almetrics rely on real-time data and interactions that can be quantified and measured immediately (Galloway, Pease & Rauh, 2013). Existing altmetrics have used a variety of data sources including article downloads (Bollen, Vandel Sompel, & Rodriguez, 2008) views and saves, as well as tweets, blogs, bookmarking sites and wikis.…”

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Do Mendeley reader counts reflect the scholarly impact of conference papers? An investigation of computer science and engineering

2017

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Counts of Mendeley readers may give useful evidence about the impact of published re-search. Although previous studies have found significant positive correlations between counts of Mendeley readers and citation counts for journal articles, it is not known if this is equally true for conference papers. To fill this gap, Mendeley readership data and Scopus citation counts were extracted for both journal articles and conference papers published in 2011 in four fields for which conferences are important: Computer Science Applications; Computer Software; Building & Construction Engineering; and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineer-ing. Mendeley readership counts correlated moderately with citation counts for both journal articles and conference papers in Computer Science Applications and Computer Software. The correlations were much lower between Mendeley readers and citation counts for confer-ence papers than for journal articles in Building & Construction Engineering and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering. Hence, there seem to be disciplinary differences in the useful-ness of Mendeley readership counts as impact indicators for conference papers, even between fields for which conferences are important

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Do Mendeley reader counts reflect the scholarly impact of conference papers? An investigation of computer science and engineering

2017

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“…The increasing popularity of social media applications resulted in new ways of scholarly communication and new metrics proliferated to assess scholarly impact called altmetrics (Cronin, 2001;Fenner, 2014;Galloway et al, 2013;Piwowar, 2013;Priem et al, 2012a;Priem, Piwowar, & Hemminger, 2012b;Sud & Thelwall, 2014). Altmetrics is defined as "the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analysing, and informing scholarship," in the Altmetrics Manifesto by Priem et al in 2010 on their site (Priem et al, 2010).…”

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“…For all the reluctance on behalf of scientists, networks proliferate (Mangan, 2012), tools have a potential to measure research impact (Haustein & Siebenlist, 2011), and scholarly social media have been reviewed extensively (Bik & Goldstein, 2013;Ortega, 2015). Different fields of science are reported to use social media in academia such as biology (Crawford, 2011), technology, engineering, and mathematics (Galloway, Pease, & Rauh, 2013;Giglia, 2011), and humanities (Hammarfelt, 2014). Researchers are inundated with introductions as well as detailed guidelines about how to use social media in general (e.g., Goodier & Czerniewicz, 2012;Gruzd, 2012), how to benefit the most from engaging in social media (Bik & Goldstein, 2013), and how social media can enhance their visibility (Bar-Ilan et al, 2012;Giglia, 2011;Goodier & Czerniewicz, 2012).…”

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Scholarly social media profiles and libraries

Ward¹,

Bejarano²,

Dudás³

2021

LIBER

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This article aims to point out emerging roles and responsibilities for academic librarians with the potential of better integrating the library in the research process. In order to find out how to enhance the online reputation and discoverability of individual faculty members as well as their affiliated institutions, the authors worked side-by-side with researchers in the United States and Europe to explore, create, revise, and disambiguate scholarly profiles in various software applications. In an attempt to understand and organize scholarly social media, including new, alternative metrics, the authors reviewed and classified the major academic profile platforms, highlighting the overlapping elements, benefits, and drawbacks inherent in each. The consensus is that it would be time-consuming to keep one's profile current and accurate on all of these platforms, given the plethora of underlying problems, also discussed in detail in the article. However, it came as a startling discovery that reluctance to engage with scholarly social Judit Ward et al. Liber Quarterly Volume 24 Issue 4 2015175 media may cause a misrepresentation of a researcher's academic achievements and may come with unforeseen consequences. The authors claim that current skills and competencies can secure an essential role for academic librarians in the research workflow by means of monitoring and navigating researcher profiles in scholarly social media in order to best represent the scholarship of their host institutions.

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“…Broad claims have been made regarding the future impact of altmetrics on academic librarianship (Galligan and Dyas-Correia 2013;Galloway et al 2013;Konkiel 2013;Lapinski, Piwowar, and Priem 2013). There are predictions, for example, that altmetrics will transform the handling of everyday reference queries by providing librarians with tools to instantly assess the latest research:…”

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The Use of Altmetrics as a Tool for Measuring Research Impact

Barnes

2015

Australian Academic & Research Libraries

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This article provides an introduction to the use of altmetrics as a tool to assess research impact. In particular, it looks at the evidence behind claims that altmetrics allow the impact of research to be measured in days rather than years. Low correlations between altmetrics and article citations make it doubtful that altmetrics can reliably predict future citations. In addition, there are good reasons to qualify statements that altmetrics measure the wider impact of research on society. Librarians should be careful not to overstate the value of altmetrics when recommending their use as a complement to more traditional measures of research quality.

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Introduction to Altmetrics for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians

Cited by 37 publications

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Do Mendeley reader counts reflect the scholarly impact of conference papers? An investigation of computer science and engineering

Do Mendeley reader counts reflect the scholarly impact of conference papers? An investigation of computer science and engineering

Scholarly social media profiles and libraries

The Use of Altmetrics as a Tool for Measuring Research Impact

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