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Hello everyone. My name
is Enrique Orduna.
I'm Associate Professor at
the Polytechnic University
of Valencia here in Spain.
I'm so happy to share with you
this presentation it's
about alternative metrics,
or altmetrics, as it's
commonly referred to.
We can use a lot
of different names
to refer to this topic or
this field of knowledge.
For example, social
media metrics.
I'm involved in this area
for ten years more or less.
I'm very intensely publishing
and participating in
a lot of conferences and
events around this topic.
I will be happy to share
with you ideas and
topics and tips just
to use altmetrics for
research assessment.
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Here we have the main goals
for this presentation.
The main objectives,
I just present.
First step is just
to let you know,
the beginning, the rise
of the altmetrics field.
It happened more or less at 2010
but obviously we have pioneer
studies about altmetrics.
The purpose is just
to let you know what
altmetrics is and what
altmetric is useful for.
Second step is just to highlight
the main advantages and
disadvantages that we have
about the use of altmetrics
for research evaluation.
Research evaluation is
an emerging topic for us
it's highly needed to
understand the reason and
the behavior of altmetrics
in order to compliment
research evaluation beyond
accounting citations
and counting publications
in general journal.
So it's very important
for me this goal.
Analyzing the pros and
cons of the altmetrics.
The third step is just to
highlight a case study.
In this case, I'm
going to show you
an example with an
Spanish journal,
profesional
informacion in English
is professional of information.
We will learn how to
use altmetrics at
the journal level and how we can
manage and take
decisions analyzing,
collecting data related to
the performance of
publications on the web.
Finally, I will finish
my presentation just
summarizing some best practices
and tips in order to use,
in an appropriate way,
altmetrics at the journal level.
