Pairing repositories and altmetrics: demonstrating the impact and engagement of research from overlooked disciplines

Q&A Session: Tuesday, March 15, 2:00 – 3:30 pm

When paired with other tools, an institutional repository can fill gaps in traditional bibliometrics and provide a much more representative picture of your academic campus. 

The Digital Humanities, the Arts, and Communications disciplines, among others, all produce work that can be overlooked when tracking reporting on published papers and datasets. Combining a repository with an altmetrics tool offers a solution. The repository provides a stable home for the content which enables the altmetrics tool to track reuse and attention. The outcome is a repository that better represents all the academic work on campus and provides a richer understanding of the impact and engagement of works neglected by traditional bibliometrics. In this presentation, we use a case study from the repository platform Figshare and the altmetrics tool Altmetric, to illustrate the benefits to researchers and institutions.

PRESENTERS:

Andrew Mckenna-Foster
Product Specialist at Figshare

Shannon O’Reilly
Sales Solution Specialist at Altmetric

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