TY - GEN
T1 - Audience based view of publication impact
AU - Patton, Robert M.
AU - Herrmannova, Drahomira
AU - Stahl, Christopher G.
AU - Wells, Jack C.
AU - Potok, Thomas E.
PY - 2017/12/15
Y1 - 2017/12/15
N2 - With increasing pressure to demonstrate a return on investment, scientic user facilities and government funded research projects must strive to demonstrate positive impact of their research on others. Historically, citation counts and journal impact factor have been widely used as a single quantitative measure of impact. However, with the expansion of various modes of communication, citation counts no longer hold as much merit as a single measure of impact. This work seeks to expand on citation counts by considering the audience to which a publication draws attention. Based on communication mode, there are various audiences that may be "impacted" but those audiences are not fully captured by citation count. Consequently, we propose that impact measures for publications should be oriented around the audience with quantiable measures based on the various communication modes.
AB - With increasing pressure to demonstrate a return on investment, scientic user facilities and government funded research projects must strive to demonstrate positive impact of their research on others. Historically, citation counts and journal impact factor have been widely used as a single quantitative measure of impact. However, with the expansion of various modes of communication, citation counts no longer hold as much merit as a single measure of impact. This work seeks to expand on citation counts by considering the audience to which a publication draws attention. Based on communication mode, there are various audiences that may be "impacted" but those audiences are not fully captured by citation count. Consequently, we propose that impact measures for publications should be oriented around the audience with quantiable measures based on the various communication modes.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041923333&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3127526.3127538
DO - 10.1145/3127526.3127538
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041923333
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 64
EP - 68
BT - WOSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, Co-located with 2017 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, WOSP 2017
Y2 - 15 December 2017
ER -