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Lillian Hoffecker, PhD, MLS Dana Abbey, MLS

MLA 2014: Building Our Information Future. What’s the difference between altmetrics and other measures of research influence? Exploring alternative metrics, impact factors, and more. Lillian Hoffecker, PhD, MLS Dana Abbey, MLS. Objective.

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Lillian Hoffecker, PhD, MLS Dana Abbey, MLS

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  1. MLA 2014: Building Our Information Future What’s the difference between altmetrics and other measures of research influence? Exploring alternative metrics, impact factors, and more. Lillian Hoffecker, PhD, MLS Dana Abbey, MLS

  2. Objective • To demonstrate ways librarians can assist clinicians and researchers discover their scholarly value by understanding different research metrics

  3. What’s Being Measured? • Citation metrics • How often an individual article was cited • Altmetrics • “Crowdsourcing” the social web for analyzing reach and visibility of research

  4. Changing Landscape of Research Metrics • Citation Metrics • Impact factor • Eigenfactor • Other Metrics • PlumX • Altmetric.com

  5. Our Study • Product selection • PlumX • Participant selection • 3 nursing faculty • 2 practicing physician/researchers • 1 biomedical researcher

  6. PlumX

  7. AltmetricExplorer

  8. Comparison

  9. Q1: Which metric do you value the most? Questions asked of study participants: Citations and usage - for academic purposes the most important thing would really be citations (for academia) and usage (for real-world how important is this in potentially changing practice).

  10. Q2: What would you use these metrics for? Funding opportunities, showing that our work is making a difference in changing practice patterns, promotion and tenure, and potentially for collaborators (who cited my work, who might be interested in working with me).

  11. Q3: Would you contact someone discussing your research? I would (have) contacted someone who discusses my work via social media - and I asked them to join me in LinkedIn.

  12. Q4: Do you have concerns about this information? Anything relating to our work that is already out in public can get distributed however anyone wants…If it is important that something be kept secret, we just keep it a secret prior to publication.

  13. Role of the Librarian • Promote open access and in particular an OA fund at your institution • Communicate with researchers on ways to raise profile • Contribute to social media (department liaisons) • Develop a knowledge base for tools to get people started • Encourage use of unique author identifiers like ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)

  14. Raising Researcher Profiles • Translate presentations • Make available in open access venues • Self-promote through social media and professional networking • Utilize curating, bookmarking, and sharing tools to promote content • Get in touch with those who download your work • Create a “plain language” version of your technical work

  15. Translated Presentations

  16. Acknowledgments • Faculty Participants • Translators • Plum Analytics • Altmetric LLP

  17. Thank You!

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