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1. Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn 9Using Altmetrics to Demonstrate Scholarly Impact Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing University Library System University of Pittsburgh Thursday, 27 March 2014 CC BY 3.0

2. Defining Altmetrics • Alternative ways of measuring the use and impact of scholarship • “Altmetrics are measures of scholarly impact mined from activity in online tools and environments” (Jason Priem) • Altmetrics combines traditional impact measures (citation counts) with non-traditional measures • Altmetrics= ALL METRICS

3. New Measures • More comprehensive • Citations • Usage • Captures • Mentions • Social media • Covers impact of online behavior • Because scholars increasingly work online • Measures impact immediately • Because citation counts take years to appear in literature

4. Traditional vs. New • Traditional measures are also counted • Findings are complementary to conventional methods of measuring research impact (e.g., H-Index) • Not intended to replace them

5. Researcher Impressions • Altmetrics as a “forecast” of how your scholarly work will be used by others • Encouraging for early-career researchers who are waiting for citation counts but want some indicator of their reach • Seeing who is using and discussing your work fosters collaboration and new ideas • The researcher can get in on the social media conversation • Gives insight into the “discovery” portion of the research lifecycle • How are people discovering my work? How can I discover new things myself?

6. The social role of scholars • Altmetrics has the potential . . . • “To show the impact of research outside the scholarly community (i.e., how it may be picked up by general/non-specialist audiences)” • “I think this is an important aspect of the researcher¹s role and altmetrics may give us (for the first time) some sort of social impact of research” • Berenika Webster

7. Altmetric Tools and Services • Impact Story • Altmetric • PLoS article-level metrics • Plum Analytics/PlumX

8. PlumX – http://plu.mx/pitt • Making research “more assessable and accessible” • Gathering information in one place (profiles) • While scattering and sharing it in other places (widgets) • Making data intelligible and useful • Allowing researchers, labs, departments, institutions to track real-time scholarly impact • Promoting research, comparing with peers, connecting with new research

9. Altmetrics Project Timeline

10. Pilot Project Participants • 32 researchers, various disciplines • 9 schools • 18 departments • 1 complete research group • Others joined as they learned about the project

11. Pilot Project Participants

12. Key Features • Faculty profiles • Online artifacts • Article • Book • Book chapter • Video, etc. • Impact graph • Sunburst • Widgets

13. Faculty Profile

14. Online Artifact Display

15. Impact Graph

16. Sunburst

17. Embeddable Widgets For researchers, to add to: • their own Web pages • department directories • IR researcher profile page For individual artifacts,to build article-level metrics for imbedding in: • IR document abstract page • Article abstract page for journals we publish

18. Plum Analytics Widget in e-Journals Displays altmetrics for each article Piloted in early 2014 by the International Journal of Telerehabilitation Now live in 10 e-journals; soon to be available in all 35

19. Release the Widgets! • Journals • http://telerehab.pitt.edu • http://jffp.pitt.edu • http://palrap.pitt.edu • http://biblios.pitt.edu • http://ricoeur.pitt.edu • http://cajgh.pitt.edu • http://hcs.pitt.edu • http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu • http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu • http://bsj.pitt.edu • Repositories • D-Scholarship@Pitt • Coming soon • PhilSci Archive • Archive of European Integration • Minority Health and Health Equity Archive • Industry Studies Working Papers

20. Impact: Full Text, Open Access Article • Lavasani, M., Gehrmann, S., Gharaibeh, B., Clark, K., Kaufmann, R., Péault, B., Goitz, R., & Huard, J. (2011). Venous graft-derived cells participate in peripheral nerve regeneration. PloS one, 6(9), e24801. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024801 • http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13897/

21. Impact: Citation Only • Ambrosio, F., Ferrari, R., Distefano, G., Plassmeyer, J., Carvell, G., and Deasy, B., Boninger, M., Fitzgerald, G., & Huard, J. (2010). The synergistic effect of treadmill running on stem-cell transplantation to heal injured skeletal muscle. Tissue engineering. Part A, 16(3), 839-49. doi:10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0113 • http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/15959/

22. Impact: Unrestricted Dissertation • Clark, Roland. (2012). European Fascists and Local Activists: Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. • http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/11837/ • No restriction; immediate access worldwide

23. Impact: Restricted Dissertation • Bateman, Oliver. (2012). Law, Society, and Judicial Politics: State Supreme Courts and the Pursuit of Educational Equity. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. • http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/11865/ • Restricted to University of Pittsburgh users only until June 2015

24. Future Plans • Rollout to all Pitt Researchers • Faculty will edit their own user profiles and add artifacts • Sign-on will use Shibboleth and can be added to portal • Plum Analytics is working on Shibboleth compliance • Automate exchange of records from external systems into PlumX • D-Scholarship@Pitt • Digital Vita or other Research Profiling Systems • Vendor-supplied data

25. Your Turn • What might a researcher say about their impact? • What issues do you see arising in the use of altmetrics data? • Who do you think might be interested in altmetrics and why? • How would you “sell” PlumXto faculty? Or would you?