Citation Metrics and Altmetrics: A Brief Overview (Computers in Libraries 2018)

Citation Metrics and Altmetrics: A Brief Overview
Elaine Lasda, Associate Librarian, University at Albany

 Proprietory resources: Clairvariate anlytics, Scopus, Plumx (bought by elsevier used by Scopus). When Web of Science isn't enough or available. Free resources (see resource guide online at conference site).

Citation/Bibliometric tools. Dimensions.ai is an open source citation database like scopus, very similar. Copernio one stop document retrieval browser add-on.

Clarivate Analytics - vanit yassessment, but can help id hot otpics and bleeding edge of research. Tough to search for specific journal or researcher.

Journalmetrics.com
Scopus' CiteScore - Journal metric a ratio like the journal impact factor but includes other than scholarly peer reviewed: includes editorials, conference proceedings, review articles. Percentile rank, citation counts, SNP SJR (SNP supposed to correct for disciplinary differences in impact factor, but only thing that corrects for it really is percentile ranking to compare apples to apples).

Google Scholar Citations Profile - Import the publications, citation count in Google Scholar (# citations in past 10 years, and h-index - 3 means 3 papers cited at least 3 times). Publish or Perish downloadable tool, you can impose citation data and ask for what you want and search journal titles. Then computes metrics like h-index and variations. h-index corrects for one hit wonders who get cited for one article then stops, rewards sustained career of cited research. Some folks need ot factor in coauthors, break in sustained career, so variations on h-index correct for career anomalies. See Harzing Publish or Perish book.

Scholarometer browser add pulls from Google data.

Were you cited in a book? There is a book citation index in Web of Science, evolving, looks at highly cited books in general.

If you want every citation to one's work. ORCID ID is what we want to see people do, and is free, but not everyone is using it.

A metric is not n=all. 98.6 for human temp is not 98.610398514305607 - we use an approximation. There's a degree of precision that's very difficult to achieve.

Mary Ellen Bates! WorldCat Identities, publication timelines, where held.

Impact of citation counts. WoS: browser bookmarklet in Firefox or Chrome - altmetric? Mendely, Twitter, blogs, news - nonscholarly where it has been picked up, goes by DOI.

Altmetric researcher level - Impact Story Profiles - badging model

Reputation Approaches - word of mouth, luminaries/notable editors, professional associations, published surveys

Holistic Impact Assessment is a mix of indicators. Bibliometrics, altmetrics, and reputation gives you the narrative you need for your institution.

OPEN ACCESS to article boosts attention and citation to article.
Usage metrics - where the future is, but hey tend to be institution specific. UC did a usage impact factor in UC system but not necessarily replicable and are hard to aggregate. But Google analytics modifications are changing.

Measuring Research & Maximizing Impact Using Altmetrics
Richard P. Hulser
National History Museum, Los Angeles County (previously

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