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A Study about Scholarly Impact Measurement through Altmetrics

Altmetrics를 통한 연구의 영향력 평가에 관한 연구

  • 조재인 (인천대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2015.02.11
  • Accepted : 2015.03.18
  • Published : 2015.03.30
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Abstract

Altmetircs is the new method to measure social impact of research result which couldn't be found by traditional way, through measuring how much research result is reacting to social media. As academic communication has been diverse and OA repository which can preserve diverse type of article has been activated, New paradigm that measure impact of articles through multifaceted and complex way has been started. This study considers background, status of application, pros and cons about altmetircs. And by using Impactstory which is open source based tool, analyses the research output about digital library of Korea, china and japan which is published in international journal. Besides, analyses correlation between Altmetricss and citation rates. As results, "saved" shows higher than "cited" in library research analysis, it means that even though articles are not cited by followed study, there are a lot of articles that has saved in reference management tool. And positive correlation(r = 0.718) exists between "saved" and "cited", it can be inferred that Altmetricss complement the bibliometrics based evaluation system. Meanwhile, Korean researches are saved more in reference management tool than other countries.

Altmetrics는 각종 연구성과물의 영향을 소셜미디어, 언론보도, 참고문헌관리도구 등으로부터 수집하여 다차원적으로 분석함으로써 기존 방식에서는 찾아낼 수 없었던 사회적 영향도를 측정하는 기법이다. 최근 학술커뮤니케이션 방식이 다양해지고, 오픈 엑세스 문화에 의해 다양한 분야의 논문을 저장하고 배포할 수 있는 OA 레포지토리가 활성화되면서 아티클 단위의 영향력을 다면적 복합적으로 측정할 수 있는 새로운 평가 체계에 대한 고민이 시작되고 있다. 본 연구는 Altmetrcis의 등장 배경, 응용 현황과 장단점에 대해 고찰하며, 실제 오픈소스 기반의 Altmetrcis 측정 도구인 ImpactStory를 활용하여 국제학술지에 출판된 한중일 디지털도서관 관련 논문의 영향력을 살펴보고 피인용도와 어떠한 상관성을 나타내는지 분석하였다. Altmetrcis 측정 결과, 분석된 연구는 참고문헌관리도구에 'saved'된 경우가 소셜 미디어에 의해 'discussed'되거나, 후속연구에 의해 'cited'된 빈도보다 더 높게 나타났으며, 'saved'와 'cited'와 간에는 양의 상관성(r = 0.718)이 존재하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 분석 대상 논문을 한중일로 구분하여 영향력 차이를 비교 분석한 결과, 한국은 일본과 중국에 비해 'saved' 빈도가 높은 것으로 나타났다.

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