Impact Influence and Importance An Exploration of Traditional

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Impact, Influence, and Importance An Exploration of Traditional and Alternative Article Metrics Thane Chambers

Impact, Influence, and Importance An Exploration of Traditional and Alternative Article Metrics Thane Chambers and Lori Walter

Research Project: Understanding Research Metrics in Nursing Goal: Understand how research metrics can best

Research Project: Understanding Research Metrics in Nursing Goal: Understand how research metrics can best highlight nursing publications What’s needed: ● Read Letter of Information ● Sign Letter of Consent ● Participate today and complete at least 2 follow up surveys

Traditional Metrics Journal Level Metrics ● IF ● SNIP, SJR, eigenfactor, and all the

Traditional Metrics Journal Level Metrics ● IF ● SNIP, SJR, eigenfactor, and all the variants Author/Institution Level Metrics ● h-index and all its variants ● Times cited ● Who/which fields are citing a specific author/group/institution ● # of publications Article Level Metrics ● Times cited ● Who/which fields are citing a specific article

Do you see a pattern?

Do you see a pattern?

Altmetrics “Altmetrics” is the most widely used term to describe alternative assessment metrics. Coined

Altmetrics “Altmetrics” is the most widely used term to describe alternative assessment metrics. Coined by Jason Priem in 2010, the term usually describes metrics that are alternative to the established citation counts and usage stats—and/or metrics about alternative research outputs, as opposed to journal articles. (NISO Altmetrics Standards Project White Paper, Draft June 6, 2014) ● view/download stats, social media sharing, online content management, non-scholarly citation, etc. ● datasets, software, posters, presentations, ETDs, blogs, etc.

Altmetrics Providers Provided by corporations ● Altmetric. com: for-profit corporation ● Plum X: for-profit

Altmetrics Providers Provided by corporations ● Altmetric. com: for-profit corporation ● Plum X: for-profit corporation ● Impactstory: non-profit corporation (fee introduced Aug 2014) Provided by publishers ● PLOS, Biomed Central, Nature, etc. ● Elsevier’s Scopus database ● individual journals

Nursing and Metrics Nursing sits in such a curious place.

Nursing and Metrics Nursing sits in such a curious place.

Rules of Discussion ● Follow the time guidelines for each of the questions ●

Rules of Discussion ● Follow the time guidelines for each of the questions ● 1 person should volunteer to be the note taker and timekeeper for each group ● Be the person your parent wanted to raise: o don’t dominate/ramble o explore o let everyone who wants to speak, speak

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Group Discussion ○ What are the limitations of research metrics? ○ What are the

Group Discussion ○ What are the limitations of research metrics? ○ What are the advantages of research metrics? ○ What do research metrics measure? ○ What should research metrics measure?