Speaker
Mrs
Heather Piwowar
Description
Altmetrics is a hot buzzword. What does it mean? What's behind the buzz? What are the benefits and risks of including alternative metrics of research impact in our discovery and evaluation systems? What altmetrics tools exist today, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and where is the field going?
Join Heather Piwowar, cofounder of ImpactStory, for this tour of the altmetrics landscape. The session will be relevant to anyone who produces, publishes, or evaluates research: funders, university administrators, journal and repository leaders, and individual scholars.
If you can, bring a laptop to play along during the session. Do you have research products you'd like to experiment with? Prep a digital list of IDs (DOIs, PMIDs, URLs, researcher ORCIDs, etc) and we'll see what we can discover!
