Web indicators for research evaluation. Part 3: books and non standard outputs

Kousha, Kayvan; Thelwall, Mike

doi:10.3145/epi.2015.nov.04

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“…Work carried out by Thelwall and Kousha (2015a,b) and Kousha and Thelwall (2015) explored different types of web indicators for research evaluation. The UK has the Research Excellence Framework (REF) which will next take place in 2021 and will assess the impact of research beyond academic citations.…”

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What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield

Tattersall

2018

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield

Tattersall

2018

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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“…A variety of web-based indicators have also been developed for the impact of books, software, datasets, videos and other non-standard academic outputs (Kousha and Thelwall 2015c). These indicators have the potential of reveal non-scholarly types of impacts, such as educational (from course syllabi and PowerPoint presentations), commercial (from patent citations) and social impacts (from Wikipedia citations) or attention (from Twitter).…”

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Can alternative indicators overcome language biases in citation counts? A comparison of Spanish and UK research

Mas-Bleda

2016

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This study compares Spanish and UK research in eight subject fields using a range of bibliometric and social media indicators. For each field, lists of Spanish and UK journal articles published in the year 2012 and their citation counts were extracted from Scopus. The software Webometric Analyst was then used to extract a range of altmetrics for these articles, including patent citations, online presentation mentions, online course syllabus mentions, Wikipedia mentions and Mendeley reader counts and Altmetric.com was used to extract Twitter mentions. Results show that Mendeley is the altmetric source with the highest coverage, with 80% of sampled articles having one or more Mendeley readers, followed by Twitter (34%). The coverage of the remaining sources was lower than 3%. All of the indicators checked either have too little data or increase the overall difference between Spain and the UK and so none can be suggested as alternatives to reduce the bias against Spain in traditional citation indexes.

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“…View counts and shares are used here because they are published by Figshare and alternative online metrics, such views, saves, and recommendations are more informative for digital resources (Konkiel, 2013). Usage or impact indicators derived from the web are widely used for academic articles (Thelwall and Kousha, 2015ab) and other academic outputs (Kousha and Thelwall, 2015) and so it seems reasonable to also use them for shared electronic resources. (Lawrence and Giles, 1999) the goal of Figshare is to publicise the shared resources and so it seems reasonable to assume that they would take steps to ensure timely and comprehensive indexing by the major search engines.…”

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Figshare: a universal repository for academic resource sharing?

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Kousha

2016

Online Information Review

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Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, University of Wolverhampton. Purpose A number of subject-orientated and general websites have emerged to host academic resources. It is important to evaluate the uptake of such services in order to decide which depositing strategies are effective and should be encouraged. Design/methodology/approach This article evaluates the views and shares of resources in the generic repository Figshare by subject category and resource type. Findings Figshare use and common resource types vary substantially by subject category but resources can be highly viewed even in subjects with few members. Subject areas with more resources deposited do not tend to have higher viewing or sharing statistics. Practical implications Limited uptake of Figshare within a subject area should not be a barrier to its use. Several highly successful innovative uses for Figshare show that it can reach beyond a purely academic audience. Originality/value This is the first analysis of the uptake and use of a generic academic resource sharing repository.

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Web indicators for research evaluation. Part 3: books and non standard outputs

Cited by 47 publications

References 13 publications

What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield

What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield

Can alternative indicators overcome language biases in citation counts? A comparison of Spanish and UK research

Figshare: a universal repository for academic resource sharing?

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