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Piwowar, Heather

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“…Researchers are encouraged in various ways to take advantage of the scholarly social media, and new rules reflect some recognition of unorthodox research output. The National Science Foundation started to request scholarly "products" in the biosketch along with the grant applications instead of publications starting in 2013, which indicates that these new advancements have been in the focus of attention (Piwowar, 2013). The new format of the NIH Biosketch, effective after May 25, 2015, also shows changes in the language, using "contributions to science" instead of "peer-reviewed publications" as section heading (NIH biosketch sample document).…”

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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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“…The researcher profile is not merely an ephemeral snapshot at a specific point in time, but instead it serves as a scholarly portrait of a scientist, and has a great potential to promote the scholar's oeuvre, discoverability, reputation, and, in the long run, citations. Scholarly social media platforms generally interpret science in the broadest sense and encourage open access to not only scholarly articles, but presentations, data sets, negative results, grey literature, notes, drafts, and so on (Piwowar, 2013;Priem, Taraborelli, Groth, & Neylon, 2010;Weller, 2015). Often granting access to full-text articles, the "scholarly selfie"…”

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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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Section: Alternative Metricsmentioning

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Section: Alternative Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Liber Quarterly Volume 24 Issue 4 2015mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Scholarly social media profiles and libraries

Ward¹,

Bejarano²,

Dudás³

2021

LIBER

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“…In response to this (and other issues with citation metrics), there has been a movement to develop alternative metrics ("almetrics"), defined as "new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship" (Priem, et al, 2010). For example, Piwowar (2013) has suggested that view counts or Facebook "likes" for a scholar's YouTube video can be captured to demonstrate impact. In addition, tools such as the Firefox Almetrics Bookmarklet offer the ability to capture where a video abstract has been referenced on blogs and popular websites, which is useful for articulating outreach impact.…”

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Exploring Video Abstracts in Science Journals: An Overview and Case Study

Spicer

2014

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION The video abstract has emerged in recent years as a new way of communicating the results of scholarly enquiry. For library-based journal publishers who want to support multimodal scholarship, it is useful to understand the potential benefit and impact of incorporating video abstracts into their publications. This paper provides an overview of the growth of video abstracts in science scholarship, and presents a single journal case study that compares the use and potential impact of video abstracts hosted on both YouTube and on a journal’s own website. METHODS For the case study, video abstract usage data for the New Journal of Physics (NJP) was gathered from both YouTube and the NJP native platform and then correlated using a Spearman rank correlation coefficient test to analyze viewing usage. Viewership data from both platforms was also correlated with article usage counts using Spearman to study the relationship between article usage and corresponding video abstract usage. RESULTS Users predominantly accessed the journal’s hosted video abstracts instead of the abstracts posted on YouTube. However, there was a moderate positive correlation comparing view counts of the same video abstracts across both platforms, suggesting proportionate use of both platforms. In addition, the top 25 and 100 read articles had a significantly higher presence of video abstracts than articles overall in the data set, although a specific reason for that relationship cannot be identified. DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION Video abstracts are a natural evolution of science communication into multimodal environments. Publishing trends will likely continue to grow gradually, with appreciation for non-traditional scholarship (multimodal scholarship) and new measures for assessing impact (altmetrics) potentially encouraging greater adoption. Librarybased journal publishers should consider investing in software that offers dynamic media integration, offering the video abstract option to their authors, and leveraging YouTube to further raise the visibility of their authors’ research articles and publication. Library-based publishers should have some expectation that the video abstracts will be viewed relatively proportionally across platforms (i.e. a video abstract that receives a higher or lower view count on the journal’s website is moderately more likely to also receive a higher or lower view count on YouTube), with the majority of total views (for all videos) coming from the journal’s website. Subject and media librarians should become more aware of these emerging practices to support the video abstract publication and creation needs of their research communities.

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“…Metrics for annotations made will be collected and stored by the metrics system also being developed as part of the project. Altmetrics, which aim to look beyond traditional measures such as peer review, citation counts and Impact Factors (Priem et al 2010) have become increasingly salient within STEM publication within recent years (Warren 2017, Piwowar 2013. The fact that they are now increasingly used in academic assessment programs leads many to worry that HSS scholars are at a disadvantage in regard to how their work is measured and thereby valued (e.g.…”

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