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Uncovering the meanings behind altmetrics

This study explores the motivations behind why academics share, discuss, recommend, save, and download scholarly content on the web, and how these actions contribute to altmetrics. The study reveals deliberate decisions to join professional networks, varied reasons for following others, and the tendency to skim retweeted content. It also highlights the common practice of archiving liked or retweeted articles/books to citation managers like Mendeley and Zotero. Academia.edu is found to have a high rate of inactive users. Help us spread the word about this study!

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Uncovering the meanings behind altmetrics

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  1. Uncovering the meanings behind altmetrics an exploratory study Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric David Sommer, Kudos Charlie Rapple, Kudos

  2. Background

  3. Shining a light... Sources of attention Creating that attention ?

  4. What we know already • Academics tweet to share blogs about articlesrather than articles themselves (Priem & Costello, 2010) • Mendeley users often bookmark to cite later (85%) or because they’ve read or intend to read (82%) most of the content in their libraries (Mohammadi, Thelwall & Kousha, 2016); • Also bookmark “for use in professional (50%), teaching (25%) and educational activities (13%)” (ibid)

  5. Our study What motivates academics to share, discuss, recommend, save, and download scholarly content on the web (actions that result in altmetrics)? What we’ve learned so far: • Deliberate decision to join these networks for professional purposes • Reasons for “following” vary (know in real life vs. “you’re interesting”) • Twitter • “Archived” (liked or retweeted) articles/books often re-saved to Mendeley, Zotero • Usually at least skim retweeted content • Academia.edu prone to inactive users/abandonment

  6. Please help us spread the word! http://bit.ly/kam-intent

  7. http://bit.ly/kam-intent Thanks! stacy@altmetric.com david@growkudos.com charlie@growkudos.com

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