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- Usage
- Media Coverage
- Blog Coverage
- Discussion Thread Activity
- Social Bookmarking Activity
- Expert Ratings
- Effect on Public Policy
- Where the Research was done
- Who is citing it
- Who is reading it
In general: articles have broken free of journals and can be assessed on their own merits. Some examples of paper statistics in New England Journal of Medicine and one other.
PLOs Steps for new article metrics: phase 1: acquire raw data which is open and non-proprietary…and can be independently verified
Phase Two…linkking,,.showing a PLoS paper with links to blog entries and papers citing this article. Also attaching Article usage in terms of viewing statistics – in the future add in more data sources.
- Science Publishers
- People who want to know where to read research
- Funding agencies
For this meeting, for example, twitter is an immediate real time metric. Later then blogging and re-blogging. But no quality metric. In science we use the impact factor…it’s slow and takes time before it reflects any real interest. Can be gamed and does not tell you how good research is.
Usage metrics for individual researchers – analogy to LastFM. Why not build a similar system to Last FM for science.
1. Build a system to measure article pervasiveness…how many people have the article in their library
BUT preserve privacy – scientists may not wish to have information about their paper reading and interest behaviour displayed.
Now the system is Mendeley…cross platform…aggregates reading material, tag it, read it….etc….Ultimate goal is to aggregate these statistics for analysis….data segmantation with increasing pervasiveness..what are profs reading vs undergraduates, usage by geography etc…
wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk, Semantic Science, Aug 2009