Supporting Scholars: An Analysis of Academic Library Websites' Documentation on Metrics and Impact

Suiter, Amy M; Moulaison, Heather Lea

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2015.09.004

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“…Open Access publishing, including Dawson, 2014 andMcDonald, Gibson, Yates, &Stephenson, 2016), academic librarians continue to grapple with how best to support faculty with the interpretation, location, and appropriate use of types of metrics. Research has described approaches that academic librarians can and do use to address the bibliometric needs of faculty (Corrall, Kennan, & Afzal, 2013;Hendrix, 2010;Suiter & Moulaison, 2015). Although librarians may have an increasing need to be more active in this area of support, to be effective in their work they require a solid understanding of the faculty perspective of metrics, a perspective that may or may not match their own.…”

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Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Thuna

King

2017

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With an increasing focus on scholarly communications in academic libraries, librarians are struggling with how best to support faculty with the location, interpretation, and appropriate use of metrics. Very little has been written about the faculty researcher perspective on metrics and, as a result, librarians may have a deep knowledge of the tools but have a more limited understanding of the users' viewpoint. Seventy-nine senior research faculty who were five or more years post-tenure were interviewed. Faculty from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences were all invited to participate. Each interview consisted of nine questions relating to how the faculty understand and use impact metrics in their academic life. Responses were varied to all of the questions and were tied closely to the disciplinary fields of the research faculty interviewed. A large majority of the interviewed faculty viewed the library as a key resource for getting more information relating to metrics. This research reveals a need to fill a gap between librarians and faculty researchers with examples of disciplinary best practices of metrics use, as well as product information as pertains to impact metrics.

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Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Thuna

King

2017

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“…En la correlación con citas recibidas, tan solo destaca Mendeley (Martín-Martín et al, 2016), así como en la cobertura de la producción científica indizada (Sugimoto et al, 2017;Robinson-García et al, 2014, p. 363;Suiter y Moulaison, 2015), convirtiéndose junto a Twitter (Hassan;Gillani, 2016), en prometedoras fuentes de datos sociales para las altmétricas.…”

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“…Por tanto, Twitter y Mendeley parecen ser los más efectivos canales para medir el impacto social, aunque concretamente Twitter tenga una correlación más baja con las citas que Mendeley (Suiter y Moulaison, 2015). A ambos medios les siguen Facebook y Google+ (Hassan y Gillani, 2016).…”

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¿Las correlaciones altmétricas/métricas tradicionales se ven afectadas por los planes de marketing en medios sociales de las revistas? El caso de la revista Comunicar

González-Fernández-Villavicencio

Moya-Orozco

2018

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GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ-VILLAVICENCIO, N. y MOYA OROZCO, V.M. ¿Las correlaciones altmétricas/métricas tradicionales se ven afectadas por los planes de marketing en medios sociales de las revistas? El caso de la revista Comunicar. Resumen: En este estudio se analizan las correlaciones entre los datos aportados por los sistemas de citas tradicionales y las altmétricas de los artículos publicados durante cinco años en la revista Comunicar, que destaca sobre las demás de su área por su avanzado plan de marketing en medios sociales. Además, se presentan los indicadores que ofrecen datos altmétricos y se lleva a cabo una revisión bibliográfica sobre las publicaciones que han tratado el tema de las correlaciones, destacando relaciones débiles entre métricas tradicionales y altmétricas. Del estudio de correlaciones sobre los datos de la revista, se confirman las débiles relaciones entre los tipos de métricas y se concluye que son significativas para evaluar el nivel de atención que reciben las publicaciones en distintos ámbitos. Como recomendación a los investigadores y editores se destaca la importancia de utilizar los medios sociales, en especial Mendeley y Twitter, para dar visibilidad y difundir la producción científica. Palabras clave: Comunicación científica; correlaciones; web social; altmétricas; Snowball; Mendeley; Twitter; Altmetric.com. Title: ARE ALTMETRICS-TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS CORRELATIONS AFFECTED BY THE JOURNALS' SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING PLAN?: THE JOURNAL COMUNICAR.Abstract: This study analyses the correlations between data provided by the traditional citation systems on one hand and altmetrics on the other hand, related to the articles published in the journal Comunicar during five years. This journal stands out among the others in its field due to its advanced social media marketing plan. First, a presentation of the most representative aspects of altmetrics is given, according to published studies. Next, a bibliographic review is carried out on the publications dealing with the subject of the correlations and that emphasize the low correlation between citations and altmetrics. With the aim of helping researchers to understand what they involved and how they are used for their own benefit, this review is followed by a cross-metric validation study of the articles that concludes that altmetrics do not measure the authors' scientific impact, but they are significant in assessing the level of attention received by their publications in different fields and indicate the interest and the importance of using social media, especially Mendeley and Twitter, to give visibility and disseminate their scientific outputs.

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“…A survey among education faculty members [13] showed that they required more support for grant activity, data management, intellectual property management and bibliometric analysis. The interest in supporting scholars in research assessment processes was reflected in the fact that by 2015 nearly all library websites of the Association of American Universities (AAU) members had web pages or LibGuides providing information on indicators and metrics to assist scholars in making a case for themselves and for their work [14]. Similarly, Ryś and Chadaj [15] report that bibliometric processes have become a vital part of library work in Poland.…”

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Research Support Services in Spanish Academic Libraries: An Analysis of Their Strategic Plans and of an Opinion Survey Administered to Their Directors

Borrego

Anglada

2018

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The transition from print to digital information has transformed the role of academic libraries, which have had to redefine themselves as intermediaries and partners in the learning and research processes. This study analyzes the evolution and current provision of research support services in Spanish academic libraries through an analysis of the three strategic plans published by the Spanish association of academic libraries (REBIUN) and a survey administered to the library directors. Results show that academic libraries are firmly embedded within universities' research activities, and that most of them depend on vice-rectorates for research or scientific policy. There is a relationship between the size of the library and its provision of research support services, although no correlation is observed between the size of the library and the staff devoted to research support. Library directors stress the value of institutional repositories, a vision also reflected in the importance assigned to open access in the strategic plans. Other current hot topics, such as data management, do not seem to be among the priorities of Spanish library directors as yet.

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Supporting Scholars: An Analysis of Academic Library Websites' Documentation on Metrics and Impact

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

Research Impact Metrics: A Faculty Perspective

¿Las correlaciones altmétricas/métricas tradicionales se ven afectadas por los planes de marketing en medios sociales de las revistas? El caso de la revista Comunicar

Research Support Services in Spanish Academic Libraries: An Analysis of Their Strategic Plans and of an Opinion Survey Administered to Their Directors

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