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Who Reads Research Articles? An Altmetrics Analysis of Mendeley User Categories
Ehsan Mohammadi
Little detailed information is known about who reads research articles and the contexts in which research articles are read. Using data about people who register in Mendeley as readers of articles, this paper explores different types of users of Clinical Medicine, Engineering and Technology, Social Science, Physics and Chemistry papers inside and outside academia. The majority of readers for all disciplines were PhD students, postgraduates and postdocs but other types of academics were also represented. In addition, many Clinical Medicine papers were read by medical professionals. The highest correlations between citations and Mendeley readership counts were found for types of users that often authored academic papers, except for associate professors in some sub-disciplines. This suggests that Mendeley readership can reflect usage similar to traditional citation impact, if the data is restricted to readers who are also authors, without the delay of impact measured by citation counts. At the same time, Mendeley statistics can also reveal the hidden impact of some research papers, such as educational value for non-author users inside academia or the impact of research papers on practice for readers outside academia.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Can M endeley bookmarks reflect readership? A survey of user motivations
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ALTMETRICS: NEW RESEARCH TOOL IN THE GROWTH OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Sankar P
Altmetrics as a term was coined in September 2010 by Jason Priem. Altmetrics (alternate or alternative metrics) is a field of web-based metrics that accounts for total author influence which also looks beyond journal and monographic citation counts to the social web. Quantifying emerging socialscholarly activity is new and differs from traditional citation metrics which is how academics have for decades tracked their influence in their disciplines. Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provides researchers and scholars with new ways to track this influence. Academic librarians should aim to follow these trends in measuring web-based scholarly influence by monitoring altmetric tools and social media, and engage with researchers in discussion of these emerging metrics. This article explained about the concept and historical development Altmetrics in the field of Library and Information Science. The article layout the online tools used for organizing and sharing information, and each generates some type of metric that can be considered a type of altmetric. The main difference between these tools and those in the previous category is that these tools have been created for an academic audience, making academics the core user base for them.
Role of Information Professional for the Growth of Altmetrics in the Digital Era
Sankar P
Any librarian in this field will need to continue not only filling these roles, but also ensuring that they themselves are part of the conversation as it moves forward and staying up-to-date with developments within this area. The concept of library involvement pertaining to metrics did not originate with altmetrics. Impact Factor was originally created primarily for use by librarians in making collection development and retention decisions. Libraries continue to bear primary responsibility for the acquisition of bibliometrics tools, most notably Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, and Scopus, as well as the training of people in their use. As a result, librarians are already familiar with providing support for these tools, so it makes sense that librarians have expanded to support the variety of altmetrics sources and tools. Additionally, librarians serve as natural leaders when it comes to altmetrics, not only due to familiarity with resources, but also because of the relationships they maintain with several disparate groups. The article detailed about the various tools, section, evaluation methods in which libraries and librarians are supporting and interacting with altmetrics.
Paper published in Conference Proceeding of First International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 2019), Bangkok, Thailand, held on December 02-04, 2019
2019 •
MANOJ K U M A R VERMA
Mendeley is a citation management tool and widely used by academics, educators and librarians around the world. It gives early impact data in relation to an individual academic's work, rather than citation data. The study reported in this paper aimed to investigate and characterize the presence of DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology articles in Mendeley. Data were exported from Mendeley using Webometric Analyst software. A total 391 articles were found with total 6132 readership count.The results show that student and librarian groups are primary readers of the publications as compared to faculty, researchers, and other reader groups. There is a 0.3217 correlation between Scopus citations with Mendeley readers. It was also noted that all the 391 articles has at least one reader.
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication
Unwrap Citation, Altmetric, and Mendeley Status of Highly Cited Articles in the Top-tier Library and Information Science Journals
2020 •
Hungwei Tseng, Yingqi Tang, Charlcie Vann
Purpose The purpose of the study is to use a multidimensional perspective on the analysis of scholarly articles published in the top-tier Library and Information Science (LIS) journals. The relationships between the impact factors (Altmetric attention score [AAS], citation count and Mendeley readership) were analyzed, and reader profiles were characterized and studied. Design/methodology/approach This paper examined citation count, AAS and Mendeley readership of the most cited articles published in the top-tier LIS journals – The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Government Information Quarterly and Library and Information Science Research. A total of 61 articles were analyzed. Data were recorded on an Excel spreadsheet and exported to the statistical software package SPSS 18.0 for Windows to perform the descriptive and correlation analysis. Findings This study suggests that Mendeley readership and AAS could be used as supplemental measurements for assessing the impact of a publication or author in the LIS. AAS and Mendeley readership are positively correlated with citation count, and the correlation between Mendeley readership and citation count was stronger than AAS and citation count. Librarians are dominant readers of the top-tier LIS journals, followed by social sciences, computer science and arts and humanities professions. Originality/value This study introduces two newly launched metrics for measuring the research impact factor and discusses how they correlated with citation count. Moreover, the study details the spectrum of Altmetric for discovering readership of LIS top-tier journals. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that presents the spectrum of AAS and Mendeley readership of the most cited articles published in top-tier of LIS journals. The study reveals an alternative way of measuring LIS publication’s impact factor that enables researchers, librarians, administrators, publishers and other stakeholders in LIS to assess the influence of a publication from another angle.
