1.
what it means for
PKP to offer
Article Level Metrics
Juan Pablo Alperin (@juancommander)

2.
For many years
there could only be
1
metric
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3.
one slight problem
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4.
world according to WoS
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5.
if you’re from
the South, and
your public is
in the South,
you are ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanehollingsworth/3510211925
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6.
three regional
initiatives
to the rescue
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7.
is the goal to just
make a better
IF?
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8.
an alternative source for
citations
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9.
Meneghini, R., Mugnaini, R., & Packer, A. L. (2006). International versus national oriented Brazilian
scientific journals. A scientometric analysis based on SciELO and JCR-ISI databases. Scientometrics,
69, 529–538. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0168-z
Meneghini, R., & Packer, A. L. (2007). Is there science beyond English? Initiatives to increase the quality
and visibility of non-English publications might help to break down language barriers in scientific
communication. EMBO reports, 8(2), 112–6. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400906
Meneghini, R., Packer, A. L., & Nassi-Calò, L. (2008). Articles by latin american authors in prestigious
journals have fewer citations. (S. M. Bowyer, Ed.)PloS one, 3(11), e3804. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.
0003804
and some good studies came out of it
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10.
and they mostly
assert the bias
against developing countries
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11.
and now...
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12.
there are
alternatives!
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13.
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14.
what do they mean for the SOUTH
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15.
and what are our
motivations
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16.
and what is my
motivation
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17.
what should be our
motivation
for caring about
altmetrics/ALM
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18.
• new
ways gaining visibility
• new ways demonstrating visibility
• good
articles can stand out from journal
• researchers can stand out for good work
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19.
• counting
some forms of public impact
• being rewarded for other kinds of impact
• incentive
to gear research to public interests
• move away from dependencies on measures
biased against the South
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(local?)

20.
¡¡CAUTION!!
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21.
facebook penetration
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22.
All Place coordinates in the Twitter Decahose 23 October 2012 to 30 November 2012
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654
Twitter is usage is very skewed
@juancommander
are you surprised?

23.
lets look at SciELO
data from articles published in SciELO.br in 2012
collected metrics using PLOS ALM App
data can be found at http://pkp-alm2.lib.sfu.ca
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24.
crossref
1522 (8.5%)
mendeley
989 (5.5%)
pmc
439 (2%)
citeulike
16 (0%)
looking at coverage
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25.
13%
87%
at least one event

26.
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27.
the signal is
LOW
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28.
launched an
ALM
using
giving priority to the developing world
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29.
launched an
ALM
using
giving priority to the small publishers
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30.
our plan
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31.
make these metrics
prominent
on article pages
the tried and true “shove it in people’s faces” approach
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32.
hopefully:
• change
• open
minds to alternative measures of impact
• attract
• give
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culture around communicating research
readers to a different group of journals
an incentive to do research of public interest

33.
We are actively looking for journals
especially from Latin America
sign-up your OJS journal here!
http://tinyurl.com/pkp-alm
and tell your friends!
@juancommander

34.
thank
you
@juancommander