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Altmetrics and Revolutions:New metrics for a new era of WebnativeScholarship.@jasonpriemJune 29, ALA Annual Mtg,Chicago IL

What you domatters somuch.

Communication isthe soul ofscience.

Ye Olde LetterThe Lettertech pen andpaperproducts letterfilters personal

In 1665, the firstrevolution:Oldenburg publishes Phil. Trans;applies the best available technology(printing press) to vastly improvedissemination.

A step forward: the journalThe Lettertech pen andpaperproducts letterfilters personalThe Journalprinting pressarticlepeer-review

A second revolution is comingThe Letter The Journal The DcJtech pen andpaperprinting press the webproducts letter article everythingfilters personal peer-review altmetrics

But journals are already online!Your revolution isover, sir!"The Digital Publishing RevolutionIs Over"

Online journals arepaper journalsdelivered by fasterhorses.

The First Revolutionpromoted homogeneityof outputs.The standardized article was born ofthe need for industrial-scale replicationand interchangeability.

The Second Revolutionwill promote diversity ofoutputs.With publication nearly free, itbecomes trivial to capture the missingpieces of the scholarly record.

Instead of movingpaper productsfaster, we can createweb-native science.

conversationstoriesanalysisdata

data

analysis

storiesfiction:short story, novella, novel, series, play,film, comic book, etc, etc...scholarship:paper, monograph,video, blog posts, notebooks, infographics,slides, etc, etc

conversation

conversation

Examples: TwitterIn one month, over 58k citations fromTwitter to scholarly articles (citwaitions?)It is like having a jury preselect what willprobably interest you…. Occasionally therewill be something that people will link to, andit will change what I think, or what I’m doing,or what I’m interested in.-study participant(Priem and Costello, 2010)

Examples: Twitter(Priem, Costello, and Dzuba 2011)

Web-native sciencemeans we can startmaking public, notmerely "Publishing."

Here's my journal:

Here's how I publish:The Decoupled Journal article: a case study.

But how do wefilter? How dowe measure?

Don't turn offthe taps,Build boats.

The old way:countin' citations

And that's awesome!histcite example

But citations only tellpart of the storySpotting emergingresearch frontswill requiretracking "formaland informalcommunication"(Kuhn, 1977)Heart of scholarlycommunicationis "visits, personalcontacts, andletters." (Bernal,1944)"...there areundoubtedlyhighly usefuljournals that arenot citedfrequently."(Garfield, 1972)

Impact has multiple dimensions:Audience:Engagementtype:scholars, publicviews, discussion,saves, citation,recommendation

Impact has multiple dimensions:scholarlypublicrecommendedciteddiscussedsavedscholarly

Bibliometrics measures citationscholarlypublicrecommendedcited traditional citationdiscussedsavedscholarly

Altmetrics measures impact:scholarlypublicrecommended faculty of 1000 popular presscited traditional citationwikipediadiscussed scholarly blogs blogs, twittersavedmendeley,citeulikedeliciousscholarly pdf views html views

Bibliometrics mined impacton the first scholarly Web.altmetrics minesimpact on thenext one.

An open-source, nonprofit startup to gatherand share altmetrics.Heather PiwowarJason Priem

Why altmetrics?●Faster evaluation.●Reward broader impacts.●Reward web-native products.●Build web-native filters

The network is the keyBollen, J., Van de Sompel, H.,Hagberg, A., Bettencourt, L., Chute, R.,Rodriguez, M. A., & Balakireva, L.(2009). Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoSONE, 4(3), e4803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803

At web scale, the value isn't inmanual curation...(ask these guys)

It's in mining the network(ask these guys)

Let's getstarted!

The second revolution has started.Once we have altmetric data, it’s too useful toignore; alternative filters and even certificationpaths based on this data will open.As Peter Vinkler says, citation graph data is likeChekhov’s gun: once on stage, it has to be fired.

A wise man, that Chekov.

Thanks!Advisors:● Brad Hemminger,● Todd VisionFunders:● Alfred P. Sloan Foundation● DataONE● Dryad● National ScienceFoundation● Open Society Foundations● Royster Society of Fellows

Questions?Jason Priem @jasonpriem, http://jasonpriem.orgThis is a living document; if a particularversion is important to you, make sureyou link to that revision.