Let’s learn to understand the digital conversation around our article

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Altmetrics : The Societal Impact
Let’s learn to understand the digital conversation around our article
Nurhazman Abdul Aziz
Department of Library & Information Science
Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
University of Malaya

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Today’s Objective
Understanding the research article in scholarly
publishing and in the digital world
Impact of digital publishing and digital conversation
Measuring the digital impact (based on societal
approach)
Introduction to Altmetrics and Altmetrics.com
Top 5 best practices that Researchers (or scholarly
communication librarians)
Getting in touch and conclusion
In this session, everyone should grab and understand this knowledge:

3. Understanding your research article in
scholarly publishing and .....
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4. Understanding your research article in
scholarly publishing and in the digital world
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shares
tweetblogs &
comment
Traditional
citation
Web
citation
Trackbacks
& Pings
Number of
Downloads
Number of
Readerships
translate
favorites

5. Impact of digital publishing and
digital conversation
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6. Impact of digital publishing and
digital conversation
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7. Measuring the digital impact
(based on societal approach)
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Notes
Our articles
Our Publishers, Librarians,
Research Manager (Outreach)
Outreach, Development, Immersive Measurement

8. Introduction to Altmetrics
altmetrics is the creation and study of new
metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing,
and informing scholarship.
– The vision is summarized in:
 J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon
(2010), Altmetrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26 October
2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto
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9. Benefits
Broadness: Altmetrics measure impact beyond
science.
Diversity: Altmetrics can measure the impact of
scholarly products other than papers.
Speed: Altmetrics permit impact to be measured
shortly after the publication of a paper (or the
completion of other products).
Openness: as a rule, it is easy to obtain
Altmetrics data.
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10. What can Altmetrics capture
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When we published a research paper, the paper
can be measure by the impact
TraditionalMetrics
AlternativeMetrics
Evolution of
web technology
Digital Conversation
about the research paper

11. Altmetrics.com Bookmarklet
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Head to
http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

12. Accessing IEEE Xplore
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13. Search & Retrieve an Article
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14. Click on the Altmetrics Bookmarklet
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15. Viewing and Understanding the
Digital Conversation
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16. Top 5 best practices that
Researchers (after published)
Share out the tittle of your research articles, including the abstract
and keywords on your blog, website, community groups or social
profile.
Make sure you link back to original source, where your publisher
hosted, (usually there is a DOI provided by your publisher)
Tweet your research paper – either manually or automatically.
If you have the video presentation or powerpoint slides, do share
out and point back to the original source
Do update your librarians or research managers, so that they can
list this out as latest article published by the team.
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17. Conclusion
And now, you are aware how to outreach your research
article to the community, including have a brief knowledge
on the digital conversation around your article.
Keep this as a practice, your research will be visible and
discover by the community.
Indirectly, this will lead your work to a higher citation
counts, as the community cited your work based on the
relevant information that they need.
Also, in directly, your societal profile in the community will
increase and further opportunities will awaits to support
your passion in research and scholarly communication.
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18. Further Questions
If you have further questions, please feel free to
contact me:
 Nurhazman Abdul Aziz
 Email: hazman.aziz@hazmanlabs.com
 The Altmetrics Project: http://hazmanlabs.com
 Doctorate Support Group (30K members):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/doctsupp/
Thank you
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