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How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impact. William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach Mendeley @ mrgunn. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-2054. ...and aggregates research data in the cloud. Install Mendeley Desktop. Mendeley extracts research data….
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How Mendeley illuminates a broader definition of impact William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach Mendeley @mrgunn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-2054
...and aggregates research data in the cloud Install Mendeley Desktop Mendeley extracts research data… Collecting rich signals from domain experts.
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Read papers + keep track of notes 470M documents
New forms of discovery • Mendeley Suggest • personalized recommendations based on reading history • related articles • relatedness based on document similarity • recommender frameworks • implement recommendations as a service • third-party recommender services • serve niche audiences
We are publishing this data to the LOD cloud http://code-research.eu/
Connecting researchers Import Search Read Annotate Organize Write
Data we collect • Metadata about the paper • title, author, tags, annotations, reads, shares, groups • Metadata about the researcher • discipline, educational status, country, papers they’ve authored, presentations, expertise
Defining readership • Each document addition is a “read” • stamped with metadata describing the context of the read event • a read is like a citation, but faster and captures more
Readership vs. citations • it comes with a payload of metadata • it accrues faster • it illuminates previously hidden impact
altmetrics show broader impact http://arxiv.org/html/1203.4745v1
altmetrics show broader impact http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Lin_Fenner.html
Issues To Be Addressed • Identity • Privacy • Attribution • Gaming • Filtration standards/ best practice
What would people build if they could get the data? • Impact Story – get credit for all your work • PLOS ALM – article-level metrics for papers • Plum Analytics – bespoke analytics for libraries (EBSCO) • Altmetric.com – altmetrics for publishers. (Digital Science)
www.mendeley.com william.gunn@mendeley.com @mrgunn