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Altmetrics: Analyzing the value in scholarly co...

William Gunn
November 08, 2012

Altmetrics: Analyzing the value in scholarly content

Presentation to the 2012 Charleston Conference

William Gunn

November 08, 2012
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  3. 300 million documents uploaded 2.0 million users Cambridge Stanford University

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  4. Why are altmetrics important?  Get better data on what's

    working  Get it faster  Serve all the stakeholders in research
  5. Research is poor quality  Amgen: 47 of 53 “landmark”

    oncology publications could not be reproduced.  Bayer: 43 of 67 oncology & cardiovascular projects were based on contradictory results  Dr. John Ioannidis: 432 publications purporting sex differences in hypertension, multiple sclerosis, or lung cancer. Only one data set was reproducible.
  6. We didn’t see that a target is more likely to

    be validated if it was reported in ten publications or in two publications NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY 10, 712 (SEPTEMBER 2011)
  7. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030291 Problems with Impact Factor “During discussions with Thomson Scientific

    over which article types the company deems as “citable,” it became clear that the process of determining a journal's impact factor is unscientific and arbitrary.”
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