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Crowdsourcing Real-Time Impact Factors and a Semantic Research Database

Victor Henning Mendeley. Crowdsourcing Real-Time Impact Factors and a Semantic Research Database. “The entire history of science in the last 50 years could be written in terms of papers rejected by Science and Nature.” Paul Lauterbur. “Science progresses funeral by funeral.” Max Planck.

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Crowdsourcing Real-Time Impact Factors and a Semantic Research Database

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  1. Victor Henning Mendeley Crowdsourcing Real-Time Impact Factors and a Semantic Research Database

  2. “The entire history of science in the last 50 years could be written in terms of papers rejected by Science and Nature.” Paul Lauterbur “Science progresses funeral by funeral.” Max Planck

  3. This talk is about post-publication quality measurements.

  4. The current “Gold Standard”, the Impact Factor: extremely skewed distribution wrong incentives to researchers (target only high-impact journals, “bite-sized papers“, citation bartering) and editors (encouraging self-citations, review articles) studies find that only 20% of papers cited have actually been read arbitrary time window favours fast-evolving disciplines Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, Vol. 8, 2008

  5. Article usage metrics Analogy in music: “Scrobbling tracks“

  6. works like this: 3) Last.fm builds your music profile... and the world‘s biggest open music database 1) Install “Audioscrobbler” 2) Listen to music

  7. Why not build the same system for science? Track article pervasiveness in reference manager libraries Track article reading time in PDF viewers Track user tags and ratings Key difference: preserve privacy

  8. Mendeley works like this: 1) Install Mendeley Desktop Automatic data extraction External database integration Automatic bibliography generation Tagging and annotation 2) Manage your research papers

  9. Mendeley works like this: 3) Mendeley aggregates research data in the cloud 1) Install Mendeley Desktop 2) Manage your research papers

  10. We’re aggregating a crowdsourced research database with a unique layer of social & real-time usage stats.

  11. 11m research papers (and 217m references) uploaded: After 12 months in public beta (version 0.9):

  12. Top 20 institutions using Mendeley: University of Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London Harvard University University of Edinburgh University of Michigan University of Oxford University College London UC Berkeley Max Planck Society Cornell University University of Wisconsin RWTH Aachen Columbia UniversityPrinceton University University of Cologne Yale University University of Dundee University of Florida After 12 months in public beta (version 0.9):

  13. 3. Top articles of 2009 by readership on Mendeley 1. 2.

  14. Correlation between ISI Citations and Mendeley Readership for ISI’s Top Five Biology Papers 2009

  15. Journal aggregate stats:

  16. Dr. Peter Binfield, Public Library of Science: Journal aggregate stats: Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com

  17. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same method ... Result: A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database

  18. www.mendeley.com

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