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Anup Kumar DasJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.in
Altmetrics and the Changing Societal Needs of Research Communications at R&D Centres in an Emerging Country: A
Case Study of India
2AM: 2nd Altmetrics Conference Session: Altmetrics as Indicators of Economic and Social Impact
Presented on 7th October 2015, at Amsterdam
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Challenges• Altmetrics Score or Citation Count are not given priority in impact
measurement or research evaluation in most of the Indian universities/ research institutions.
• Research Funders in India don’t have appropriate strategy for considering Altmetrics Score in impact measurement or research evaluation or funding decision.
• University Grants Commission (UGC), apex body in University System in India, introduced Academic Performance Indicators (APIs) in 2010 for career advancement/ promotion.
• However, APIs do not seek an Altmetrics Score or a Citation Count for a published work.
• This demoralizes researchers/ faculty members having high Altmetrics Score or a Citation Counts.
• Few Indian Journals have taken appropriate initiative to derive Altmetric score from the journal website.
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Exemplary Initiative for Improving Altmetric Score• Only few research departments or centres in Indian universities have
social media presence. • Few of them maintain an active email-based discussion forum or
listserv for promoting scholarship and academic networking. • CSSP (Centre for Studies in Science Policy @Jawaharlal Nehru
University) has taken exemplary initiative to promote published works emanated from the Centre.
• CSSP gets article alerts from the Google Scholar Alerts. • Then CSSP shares information on every published work to social media
channels, including:– Twitter– Facebook– Google+– Email-based Discussion Forum– Research Blog– CSSP Website– Posts to Subject-Specific Multiple FB Groups and Listservs
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Exemplary Initiative for Improving Altmetric Score
• CSSP’s Research Students also get training on how to create and maintain their academic profiles on– Academia.edu– ResearchGate.net– Linkedin.com – Google Scholar profile– Personal Blogs– Slideshare.net– Orcid.org
• Many of the Research Students maintain their academic profiles on these sites.
• Their academic profiles include List of Published Papers, Bibliographic Details and Hyperlinks to Full-text Contents.
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Outreaching to Global Audience: Research Bloghttp://cssp-jnu.blogspot.in
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Outreaching to Global Audience: Twitter@IndiaSTS
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Outreaching to Global Audience: Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/csspjnu
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Outreaching to Global Audience: Audio Archivehttp://www.mixcloud.com/cssp_jnu/
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Open Access Repositories in Indian Universities
Total No. of Universities in the Country as on 03.09.2015 (University Grants Commission): 733Universities Total No.State Universities 336Deemed to be Universities 127Central Universities 46Private Universities 224• Institutional Repositories of Indian Universities• 70 OA Repositories from India are recorded in OpenDOAR
– About 40+ Repositories from Indian Universities – About 5.5% Indian Universities Have OA Repositories
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Notable OA Initiatives
• Shodhganga [Indian ETD Repository @ INFLIBNET]• A Repository for Theses and Dissertations from Indian Universities
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in • 44441 theses and dissertations uploaded as on 05-10-2015• Top 5 Contributing Universities
– Jawaharlal Nehru University [4450+]– Gujarat University [2924+]– Anna University [2836+]– Mahatma Gandhi University [2080+]– Bundelkhand University [1690+]
• Shodhgangotri [Research in Progress @ INFLIBNET] • A Repository for Doctoral Research in Progress from Indian
Universities http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in
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Shodhganga [Indian ETD Repository @ INFLIBNET]
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Open Access Harvestor and Central Platform
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IR@DST http://dst.sciencecentral.in
• Open Access Institutional Repository from Department of Science and Technology (DST). [Non-Functional as on 05-10-15]
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IR@DBT http://dbt.sciencecentral.in
• Open Access Institutional Repository from Department of Biotechnology (DBT). [Non-Functional as on 05-10-15]
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Information and Media Literacy Toolkit for Altmetrics
• UNESCO Open Access Curricula for ResearchersModule 4: Research Evaluation Metrics – UNIT 1: Introduction to
Research Evaluation Metrics and Related Indicators
– UNIT 2: Innovations in Measuring Science and Scholarship
– UNIT 3: Article and Author Level Measurements
– UNIT 4: Online Citation and Reference Management Tools
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Conclusion
• Lack of research communications strategies in Indian universities. • Published literatures remain unnoticed due to non-availability of
dedicated and specialised research communicators in academic departments.
• Academic staff members such as Documentation Officers, Research Officers and Information Scientists can be engaged as departmental Research Communicators and Communications Strategists for promoting published research to worldwide research communities.
• Exemplary initiatives can be up-scaled and implemented across the universities and research institutions in India.
• Apex bodies, such as UGC, DST, DBT and CSIR, need to be proactive in promoting Altmetric and other modern impact measurement methods.
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References• Das, Anup Kumar (2015). Research Evaluation Metrics [Open Access for
Researchers, 4]. Paris: UNESCO, ISBN: 9789231000829.• Das, Anup Kumar & Mishra, Sanjaya (2014). Genesis of Altmetrics
or Article-level Metrics for Measuring Efficacy of Scholarly Communications: Current Perspectives. Journal of Scientometric Research, 3(2): 82-92.
• Das, D. N., & Chattopadhyay, S. (2014). Academic Performance Indicators: Straitjacketing Higher Education. Economic & Political Weekly, 49(50), 68-71.
• Sujatha, V. (2015). The Academic Performance Indicators Regime and Its Follies. Economic & Political Weekly, 50(5), 23-25.
• UGC (2010). Proposed Scores for Academic Performance Indicators (APIs) in Recruitments and Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) Promotions of University / College Teachers.