@KoraQa13@ELPUB_Conf One of the aims of BitViews is to provide data on views/downloads as a parallel currency of academic esteem (in addition to citations). In the short term, attraction of high JIF journal remains but content (=AAMs deposited in OA IRs) is (green) Open Access!
@JosephM70973055@ELPUB_Conf @ucl_qatar BitViews would produce a free public ledger recording COUNTER-validated worldwide-aggregated data on online usage of OA AAMs. This, in turn, can be used to formulate discipline- geography-specific metrics of non-citation impact.
@ELPUB_Conf@SPARC_EU@scossfunding ... the right INCENTIVES have to be provided for the right infrastructure to be built and used. Example: over 3,000 IRs have been built, but without proper attention to the incentives to leverage them for OA/OS, they are underused.
@ELPUB_Conf@SPARC_EU@scossfunding Very encouraging news. But may I inject a note of caution? It goes without saying that without a proper infrastructure system OS cannot be achieved and thus any effort to coordinate initiatives along sound OS principles is most welcome. BUT ...
@ELPUB_Conf I would have thought most important non-citation impact measure would be number of views/downloads. Do you have data on these? If so, how do they relate to altmetrics? Also, did you have a non-OA control group in your dataset?
@ELPUB_Conf@pwlarthur I would have thought that the picture would be quite different for Arts and Humanities vs Social Sciences, as, generalising to the extreme, former are monograph-based, latter journal-based. Any evidence in your study?