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altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web

Koblenz (Germany), 14-15 June 2011
An ACM Web Science Conference 2011 Workshop

Workshop Description

Keynote: Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton:
“Evaluating online evidence of research impact”

The increasing quantity and velocity of scientific output is presenting scholars with a deluge of data. There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for both pre-publication filtering (e.g peer review) and post-publication impact filtering (e.g. the Journal Impact Factor).

Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to create new filters. Metrics based on a diverse set of social sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to call for investigation of these “altmetrics.” (seewww.altmetrics.org for a bibliography and more details).

Despite the growing speculation and early exploratory investigation into the value of altmetrics, however, there remains little concrete, objective research into the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship to established measures. Nor has there been any large umbrella to bring these multiple perspectives together. The altmetrics 11 workshop aims to  encourage both these. Submissions are invited from a variety of areas:

  • New metrics based on social media
  • Tracking science communication on the Web
  • Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics
  • Peer-review and altmetrics
  • Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics

Schedule

June 14
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome
14:05 – 15:00 Mike Thelwall Keynote
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Measuring Science on the Web
  • Relative Trends in Scientific Terms on Twitter Victoria Uren and Aba-Sah Dadzie (20 min)
  • Characteristics of Researchblogging.org science Blogs and Bloggers Hadas Shema and Judit Bar-Ilan (20 min)
  • Altmetrics: Peer Evaluation, a case study. Aalam Wassef (15 min)

16:30 – 17:15 Evaluating Altmetrics

  • Who are we talking about?: the validity of online metrics for commenting on science Julie M. Birkholz and Shenghui Wang (20 min)
  • Putting Scientometrics 2.0 in its Place Ralph Schroeder, Lucy Power and Eric Meyer (15 min)

17:15 – 17:45 Altmetrics Visions

  • Altmetrics for Eurekometrics Samuel Arbesman (15 min)
  • Re-use as Impact: How re-assessing what we mean by “impact” can support improving the return on public investment, develop open research practice, and widen engagement Cameron Neylon (15 min)
Dinner 19:00 –  Alt Coblenz

June 15
09:00 – 10:30 New Metrics 

  • Measuring impact in online resources with the CI-number (the CitedIn Number for online impact) Andra Waagmeester and Chris Evelo (20 min)
  • The search for alternative metrics for taxonomy Daphne Duin and Peter Van Den Besselaar (20 min)
  • UCount: a Community-Driven Approach for Measuring Scientific Reputation Cristhian Parra, Aliaksandr Birukou, Fabio Casati, Regis Saint-Paul, Joseph Rushton Wakeling and Imrich Chlamtac (20 min)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30 Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

  • Using Co-Citation Relations to Indicate Article Impact David Tarrant and Leslie Carr (20 min)
  • Bibliometrics and the Culture of Open Access Clifford Tatum and Paul Wouters (15)

11:30 – 12:00 Collecting Altmetrics

  • Aggregated Erevnametrics: bringing together alt-metrics through Research Objects Patrick Mcsweeney, Rikki Prince, Charlie Hargood, David Millard and Les Carr (15 min)
  • Acknowledging contributions to online expert assistance Andra Waagmeester, Gareth Palidwor, Pawel Szczesny, Istvan Albert, Mary Mangan, Christopher A Miller, Simon J Cockell, Pierre Lindenbaum, Daniel Silvestre, Giovanni Marco Dall’Olio and Chris Evelo (15 min)

12:00- 12:30 Closing – What Next?

Accepted Abstracts:

  • Altmetrics for Eurekometrics Samuel Arbesman
  • Who are we talking about?: the validity of online metrics for commenting on science Julie M. Birkholz and Shenghui Wang
  • The search for alternative metrics for taxonomy Daphne Duin and Peter Van Den Besselaar
  • Aggregated Erevnametrics: bringing together alt-metrics through Research Objects Patrick Mcsweeney, Rikki Prince, Charlie Hargood, David Millard and Les Carr
  • Re-use as Impact: How re-assessing what we mean by “impact” can support improving the return on public investment, develop open research practice, and widen engagement Cameron Neylon
  • UCount: a Community-Driven Approach for Measuring Scientific Reputation Cristhian Parra, Aliaksandr Birukou, Fabio Casati, Regis Saint-Paul, Joseph Rushton Wakeling and Imrich Chlamtac
  • Putting Scientometrics 2.0 in its Place Ralph Schroeder, Lucy Power and Eric Meyer
  • Characteristics of Researchblogging.org science Blogs and Bloggers Hadas Shema and Judit Bar-Ilan
  • Using Co-Citation Relations to Indicate Article Impact David Tarrant and Leslie Carr
  • Bibliometrics and the Culture of Open Access Clifford Tatum and Paul Wouters
  • Relative Trends in Scientific Terms on Twitter Victoria Uren and Aba-Sah Dadzie
  • Measuring impact in online resources with the CI-number (the CitedIn Number for online impact) Andra Waagmeester and Chris Evelo
  • Acknowledging contributions to online expert assistance Andra Waagmeester, Gareth Palidwor, Pawel Szczesny, Istvan Albert, Mary Mangan, Christopher A Miller, Simon J Cockell, Pierre Lindenbaum, Daniel Silvestre, Giovanni Marco Dall’Olio and Chris Evelo
  • Altmetrics: Peer Evaluation, a case study. Aalam Wassef

 

Important Dates

2-page abstracts due April 8, 2011 (note extended deadline)
Acceptance and abstract publication April 14, 2011
Open pre-workshop discussion April 14, 2011 – June 14, 2011
Workshop at WebSci 11 June 14 – June 15, 2011
Discussion closed June 30, 2011
Invitations for post-workshop proceedings TBA

Submissions

Prospective authors should submit 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including references) via EasyChair. If necessary, the workshop organizers will select the most relevant, original, and significant abstracts for presentation. Experimental results will be given preference, followed by technical reports on working altmetrics tools and position papers. All selected submissions will be published online for open peer review and discussion. Authors are encouraged to participate in the discussions of their work. Based on the presentations and online discussion, selected authors may be asked to submit full papers for peer-reviewed proceedings.

Location

The workshop is hosted by the ACM Web Science Conference 2011 (Koblenz, Germany). This interdisciplinary conference focuses on advances in studying the full range of social-technical relationships on the Web. Please visit the Web Science site for more information.

Organizers

  • Paul Groth –  VU University Amsterdam, NL
  • Jason Priem – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Dario Taraborelli – Wikimedia Foundation, USA

The organizers have an interdisciplinary background covering Sociology, Information and Library Science and Computer Science.

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