Altmetric Badges: how to engage your authors (presentation slides and Q&A)

<p>These downloadable presentation slides from the 'Altmetric Badges: how to engage your authors' webinar, hosted 15 September, provide an introduction to Altmetric badges and how they can provide publishers with a useful tool for demonstrating their commitment to helping authors achieve broader impacts.</p><p>Here are answers to the audience question that were not addressed during the live webinar: </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reporting</strong></p><p>Q: So authors are allowed to share their Altmetrics report on their e.g. ORCID page or via other channels?</p><p><em>A: </em><i>Yes! Badges are free to embed on an individual profile or publications page. <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/products/altmetric-badges/">Visit our web page</a> to test it out! </i></p><p></p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Altmetric Attention Score</strong></p><p>Q: If possible, can you elaborate a little more on how the Attention Score is calculated? (It is my basic understanding that some sources are weighted more than others.)</p><p>Q: You said that altmetric scores are based on volume, sources and authors. what do you mean by it's based on the authors?</p><p>Q: What is a good score? Respectively</p><p><em>A: The Altmetric Attention Score is an automatically calculated, weighted count of all of the attention a research output has received that we've found online. It is based on 3 main factors:</em></p><ul><li><em>Volume: how often is the research being shared overall?</em></li><li><em>Sources: Types of sources are weighted based on the expected ‘reach’. That’s why news sources count 8 points towards the score, while tweets account for less than 1 point total.</em></li><li><em>Authors: If someone is tweeting about the same article repeatedly, we lower the contribution of their mentions toward the score.</em></li></ul><p><i>You can find a more detailed description of how the score is calculated <a href="https://help.altmetric.com/support/solutions/articles/6000060969-how-is-the-altmetric-attention-score-calculated-">here</a>.</i></p><p><em>The score is not meant to be an indicator of the quality of research. It best serves as an indicator of reach. Therefore, there really isn't a scale for what's a good score. My advice is to start with your goals for engagement? What are you trying to achieve in reach? What do you want to see happen [more, less] That would be your benchmark.</em></p><p><i>In the presentation, I showed badges with scores over 1000. However, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04246/metrics">here's an example</a> of a lower attention score. Yet, it's been mentioned in 17 policy documents at 1 patent (so far).</i></p><p><i>Also, <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/blog/the-altmetric-score-is-now-the-altmetric-attention-score/">here's a blog post</a> on the attention score and best practice uses. </i></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Customer Service</strong></p><p>Q: Great presentation thanks! Do you have any templates for sharing with authors to encourage use and engagement with Altmetrics data?</p><p><em>A: We don't have anything right now but hope to by the end of the year.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Shareable reports</strong></p><p>Q: Would be great to have the link to further information on creating shareable reports.</p><p>Q: Do you have a link to the editing shareable reports webinar??</p><p><em>A: </em><i>As referenced in my presentation, <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/events/shareable-reports-how-to-engage-others-in-your-organisation-with-altmetrics-2/">here is the link</a> to view "Shareable reports: how to engage others in your organization with altmetrics " webinar.</i></p><p></p><p><br></p>