Validity of altmetrics data for measuring societal impact: A study using data from Altmetric and F1000Prime

Bornmann, Lutz

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.007

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“…Several studies have investigated the relationships between conventional bibliometric indicators, altmetrics, and overall outreach of scientific papers to provide research stakeholders with a more comprehensive picture of the engagement with research work, particularly that which takes place in non-academic contexts [29,30]. Thus, it is of interests to apply the "altmetric approach" also to soundscape studies.…”

Section: Methodology For the Review Of Soundscape Literature In Non-amentioning

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“…This is mainly because, even if Altmetric data seem able to indicate which papers are more likely to have larger outreach [6], it is not clear what kind of impact they are actually reflecting (e.g., social, cultural, environmental and/or economic impact, etc.) [30]. Due to the high interdisciplinary of soundscape research, it is not always easy to frame it into a single segment of society and more empirical studies would be desirable in this direction.…”

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The Impact and Outreach of Soundscape Research

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Soundscape has been growing steadily as a research field since its interdisciplinary concepts were first introduced about 50 years ago in music theory and acoustic ecology, and it currently affects a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from social sciences to urban planning and noise control engineering. In spite of its strong research appeal, it is not clear what the actual impact and outreach of soundscape science is at a societal level; that is: how soundscape research is received by community. Using the Altmetric database, this review aims to map how and where soundscape research is "mentioned", considering the number of mentions over time, their geographical spread and effectiveness of publication outlets. Results show that mentions are growing with time, they mostly originate in the United States and the United Kingdom, and they are generated by a limited number of research items.

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The Impact and Outreach of Soundscape Research

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Aletta

2018

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“…Next to the aspect of speed, other altmetrics have other advantages, like diversity, openness, and broadness (Bornmann, 2014a). Broader applicability of altmetrics, beyond measuring scientific success, was, for example, demonstrated by Bornmann (2014b), who investigated connections between both altmetrics and citations to societal impact, indicated by experts of the publishing and peer-reviewing platform F1000 (Faculty of 1000). Among other facts, it was found that publications with the tag "good for teaching", which indicates a certain relevance for non-researchers, created more impact in altmetrics and particularly in Twitter counts than publications without that tag.…”

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Posted, visited, exported: Altmetrics in the social tagging system BibSonomy

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In social tagging systems, like Mendeley, CiteULike, and BibSonomy, users can post, tag, visit, or export scholarly publications. In this paper, we compare citations with metrics derived from users' activities (altmetrics) in the popular social bookmarking system BibSonomy. Our analysis, using a corpus of more than 250,000 publications published before 2010, reveals that overall, citations and altmetrics in BibSonomy are mildly correlated. Furthermore, grouping publications by user-generated tags results in topic-homogeneous subsets that exhibit higher correlations with citations than the full corpus. We find that posts, exports, and visits of publications are correlated with citations and even bear predictive power over future impact. Machine learning classifiers predict whether the number of citations that a publication receives in a year exceeds the median number of citations in that year, based on the usage counts of the preceding year. In that setup, a Random Forest predictor outperforms the baseline on average by seven percentage points.

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“…These are practically unanswerable questions. Citation based evaluation does not consider the roles of datasets in repositories, algorithms, molecular structures and so on, in its assessment (Bornmann, 2012(Bornmann, , 2014a(Bornmann, , 2014b. They exclude several other ways through which scientific papers generate impact on people; impact is defined to exclude all except researchers and scholars who write papers that can be mentioned in other researchers' work (Bornmann, 2014a(Bornmann, , 2014b.…”

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“…Finally, the utility of research is becoming more realistic as people can now more easily scan through a research paper or a collection of papers and select the information that suits their needs. Generally, research is rapidly gaining larger audiences encompassing academic and nonacademic, as well as scientific and non-scientific members of society according to the technology they use or that fits their needs (Bornmann, 2014a(Bornmann, , 2014b.…”

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