Universities’ research profiles, as measured by the attention received from different altmetric events by OECD main categories, were compared with the universities research profiles based on their research outputs, as measured by Web of Science classification of the fields of publications.

1. Kim Holmberg, Timothy D. Bowman, & Fereshteh Didegah
RUSE - Research Unit for the Sociology of Education
University of Turku
(e) kim.j.holmberg@utu.fi
(w3) http://kimholmberg.fi
@kholmber
Altmetrics and research
profiles for 10 universities
in Finland

2. Research project:
Measuring the societal impact
of open science
Project is financed by the
Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture’s
Open Science and Research Initiative (2015-2016).

4. Can different altmetrics
reflect institutional
research profiles?
Are some fields of
research overrepresented
on some altmetrics?

5. We compared the distribution of
publications, citations, and
selected altmetric events across
four broad fields of science

6. Publications
(2012-2014) with
altmetric events
University of Helsinki 3928
University of Turku 1684
Aalto University 1173
University of Eastern Finland 1141
University of Jyväskylä 1071
University of Oulu 1057
University of Tampere 936
Tampere University of Technology 675
Åbo Akademi University 496
Lappeenranta University of Technology 314
University of Lapland 230
University of Vaasa 166
Hanken School of Economics 101
University of Arts 59
Total 13031
Altmetric events from Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook,
news, blogs, CiteULike, and Mendeley1, and citations
and research profiles from Web of Science.
(Big thanks to Altmetric.com for sharing data!)
1) Mendeley data collected via the Mendeley API

7. University of Helsinki
Share of
publications
(%)
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 36.82
NATURAL SCIENCES 36.92
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 12.93
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY 13.34
For instance, based on WoS
indexed publications (total):

8. University OECD categories WoS profile Wikipedia Twitter Facebook News Blog CiteULike Mendeley
Citations
(WoS)
Aalto University
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 5.20 10.91 48.14 59.57 30.18 24.04 37.83 31.52 38.95
NATURAL SCIENCES 47.38 50.91 26.97 22.09 28.08 51.44 34.57 36.07 38.40
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 10.23 5.45 8.77 5.24 3.67 1.92 6.52 12.02 3.49
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 37.19 32.73 16.12 13.09 38.06 22.60 21.09 20.39 19.16
University of Helsinki
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 36.82 24.35 47.67 44.85 33.69 28.90 39.90 31.01 34.00
NATURAL SCIENCES 36.92 48.19 24.65 23.13 27.76 38.82 38.17 39.66 51.17
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 12.93 7.25 6.87 4.56 3.78 4.22 3.65 10.41 2.67
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 13.34 20.21 20.81 27.47 34.77 28.06 18.27 18.92 12.16
University of Eastern Finland
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 44.20 53.49 60.71 61.36 57.60 44.09 40.63 32.15 42.68
NATURAL SCIENCES 30.32 27.91 19.05 16.40 17.07 33.87 40.38 44.20 42.31
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 7.63 0.00 5.82 4.06 3.47 3.76 5.29 7.48 2.26
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 17.84 18.60 14.43 18.18 21.87 18.28 13.70 16.18 12.75
University of Jyväskylä
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 17.32 16.13 34.63 28.59 23.68 17.45 31.33 24.84 20.87
NATURAL SCIENCES 47.61 54.84 20.71 18.97 21.41 35.85 29.57 37.96 50.09
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 21.47 3.23 7.85 6.47 9.57 3.30 6.77 10.07 2.57
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 13.59 25.81 36.81 45.98 45.34 43.40 32.33 27.12 26.48
Lappeenranta University of
Technology
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 0.67 19.05 56.23 78.79 70.69 44.00 42.73 30.94 40.67
NATURAL SCIENCES 44.17 71.43 31.54 13.64 27.59 50.00 41.82 54.51 53.12
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 10.12 4.76 4.36 2.02 1.72 4.00 3.64 3.83 1.04
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 45.03 4.76 7.87 5.56 0.00 2.00 11.82 10.72 5.17
University of Oulu
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 27.87 27.66 51.33 44.61 33.59 21.48 40.00 29.66 35.68
NATURAL SCIENCES 42.57 44.68 22.72 13.12 26.34 37.11 34.68 38.13 43.43
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 7.01 4.26 6.67 24.49 0.00 3.13 2.34 6.85 2.38
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 22.55 23.40 19.29 17.78 40.08 38.28 22.98 25.37 18.51
Tampere University of Technology
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 5.02 22.73 49.28 31.03 26.67 26.09 44.00 30.64 43.51
NATURAL SCIENCES 47.26 50.00 25.34 24.14 41.90 46.74 31.11 40.49 40.77
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 5.13 4.55 10.54 6.03 4.29 6.52 4.89 12.16 2.69
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 42.58 22.73 14.84 38.79 27.14 20.65 20.00 16.71 13.03
University of Tampere
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 62.94 34.78 66.13 69.11 42.52 41.62 40.91 35.49 38.50
NATURAL SCIENCES 16.60 54.35 18.08 16.22 40.65 37.06 39.39 35.91 44.80
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 13.73 6.52 4.79 5.33 4.67 2.03 5.76 12.03 3.86
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 6.73 4.35 10.99 9.33 12.15 19.29 13.94 16.57 12.84
University of Turku
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 40.43 15.49 52.86 62.95 42.45 24.02 37.58 30.12 23.06
NATURAL SCIENCES 35.73 76.55 17.39 13.72 18.50 35.74 41.46 40.08 65.64
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 12.60 2.65 8.54 6.59 2.45 8.11 4.66 11.81 2.69
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 11.24 5.31 21.21 16.74 36.60 32.13 16.30 17.99 8.61
Åbo Akademi University
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES 12.64 40.00 67.11 54.85 60.39 38.19 39.72 29.50 41.70
NATURAL SCIENCES 44.66 40.00 17.07 22.07 21.10 34.03 35.05 40.49 38.78
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 13.01 0.00 3.07 4.35 0.32 4.86 2.34 8.94 3.51
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY 29.70 20.00 12.76 18.73 18.18 22.92 22.90 21.07 16.01

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Mendeley
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Citation
prop
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
NATURAL SCIENCES
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
University of Helsinki

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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
NATURAL SCIENCES
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Lappeenranta University of Technology

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prop
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
NATURAL SCIENCES
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Aalto University

12. University of Turku
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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
NATURAL SCIENCES
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES

13. WoS research profile (With 4 OECD categories)
Variables
AaltoUniversity
UniversityofHelsinki
UniversityofEastern
Finland
Universityof
Jyväskylä
Lappeenranta
Universityof
Technology
UniversityofOulu
TampereUniversity
ofTechnology
Universityof
Tampere
UniversityofTurku
ÅboAkademi
University
AVERAGE
Wikipedia: posts 0.800 1.000 1.000 0.200 -0.211 1.000 0.400 0.800 0.600 -0.200 0.539
Twitter: posts -0.200 0.800 1.000 -0.800 -0.400 0.800 -0.200 0.800 0.400 -0.200 0.200
Facebook: posts -0.200 0.400 0.800 -0.800 -0.400 -0.400 0.000 0.800 0.400 -0.200 0.040
News: posts 0.000 0.200 0.800 -0.800 -0.800 0.200 0.800 0.800 0.400 -0.200 0.140
Blogs: posts 0.400 1.000 1.000 -0.400 -0.400 0.400 0.400 0.800 0.000 -0.200 0.300
CiteULike: readers -0.200 0.800 1.000 -0.800 -0.400 0.800 -0.200 0.800 0.600 -0.200 0.220
Mendeley: readers 0.400 1.000 0.800 0.200 0.000 1.000 0.400 0.600 0.600 0.400 0.540
WoS: citations -0.200 1.000 1.000 0.200 0.000 1.000 -0.200 0.600 0.600 -0.200 0.380
AVERAGE 0.100 0.775 0.925 -0.375 -0.326 0.600 0.175 0.750 0.450 -0.125
Table 2. Correlations between distributions of events across fields of research and
universities research profiles based on the distributions of their publications in
Web of Science

14. University WoS Wikipedia Twitter Facebook News Blog CiteULike Mendeley Citations
AGRICULTURAL
SCIENCES
ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
Aalto-yliopisto 37.19 32.73 16.12 13.09 38.06 22.60 21.09 20.39 19.16
Helsingin yliopisto 13.34 20.21 20.81 27.47 34.77 28.06 18.27 18.92 12.16
Itä-Suomen yliopisto 17.84 18.60 14.43 18.18 21.87 18.28 13.70 16.18 12.75
Jyväskylän yliopisto 13.59 25.81 36.81 45.98 45.34 43.40 32.33 27.12 26.48
Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto 45.03 4.76 7.87 5.56 0.00 2.00 11.82 10.72 5.17
Oulun yliopisto 22.55 23.40 19.29 17.78 40.08 38.28 22.98 25.37 18.51
Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto 42.58 22.73 14.84 38.79 27.14 20.65 20.00 16.71 13.03
Tampereen yliopisto 6.73 4.35 10.99 9.33 12.15 19.29 13.94 16.57 12.84
Turun yliopisto 11.24 5.31 21.21 16.74 36.60 32.13 16.30 17.99 8.61
Åbo Akademi 29.70 20.00 12.76 18.73 18.18 22.92 22.90 21.07 16.01
MEDICAL AND
HEALTH SCIENCES
Aalto-yliopisto 5.20 10.91 48.14 59.57 30.18 24.04 37.83 31.52 38.95
Helsingin yliopisto 36.82 24.35 47.67 44.85 33.69 28.90 39.90 31.01 34.00
Itä-Suomen yliopisto 44.20 53.49 60.71 61.36 57.60 44.09 40.63 32.15 42.68
Jyväskylän yliopisto 17.32 16.13 34.63 28.59 23.68 17.45 31.33 24.84 20.87
Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto 0.67 19.05 56.23 78.79 70.69 44.00 42.73 30.94 40.67
Oulun yliopisto 27.87 27.66 51.33 44.61 33.59 21.48 40.00 29.66 35.68
Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto 5.02 22.73 49.28 31.03 26.67 26.09 44.00 30.64 43.51
Tampereen yliopisto 62.94 34.78 66.13 69.11 42.52 41.62 40.91 35.49 38.50
Turun yliopisto 40.43 15.49 52.86 62.95 42.45 24.02 37.58 30.12 23.06
Åbo Akademi 12.64 40.00 67.11 54.85 60.39 38.19 39.72 29.50 41.70
NATURAL SCIENCES
Aalto-yliopisto 47.38 50.91 26.97 22.09 28.08 51.44 34.57 36.07 38.40
Helsingin yliopisto 36.92 48.19 24.65 23.13 27.76 38.82 38.17 39.66 51.17
Itä-Suomen yliopisto 30.32 27.91 19.05 16.40 17.07 33.87 40.38 44.20 42.31
Jyväskylän yliopisto 47.61 54.84 20.71 18.97 21.41 35.85 29.57 37.96 50.09
Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto 44.17 71.43 31.54 13.64 27.59 50.00 41.82 54.51 53.12
Oulun yliopisto 42.57 44.68 22.72 13.12 26.34 37.11 34.68 38.13 43.43
Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto 47.26 50.00 25.34 24.14 41.90 46.74 31.11 40.49 40.77
Tampereen yliopisto 16.60 54.35 18.08 16.22 40.65 37.06 39.39 35.91 44.80
Turun yliopisto 35.73 76.55 17.39 13.72 18.50 35.74 41.46 40.08 65.64
Åbo Akademi 44.66 40.00 17.07 22.07 21.10 34.03 35.05 40.49 38.78
SOCIAL SCIENCES
AND HUMANITIES
Aalto-yliopisto 10.23 5.45 8.77 5.24 3.67 1.92 6.52 12.02 3.49
Helsingin yliopisto 12.93 7.25 6.87 4.56 3.78 4.22 3.65 10.41 2.67
Itä-Suomen yliopisto 7.63 0.00 5.82 4.06 3.47 3.76 5.29 7.48 2.26
Jyväskylän yliopisto 21.47 3.23 7.85 6.47 9.57 3.30 6.77 10.07 2.57
Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto 10.12 4.76 4.36 2.02 1.72 4.00 3.64 3.83 1.04
Oulun yliopisto 7.01 4.26 6.67 24.49 0.00 3.13 2.34 6.85 2.38
Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto 5.13 4.55 10.54 6.03 4.29 6.52 4.89 12.16 2.69
Tampereen yliopisto 13.73 6.52 4.79 5.33 4.67 2.03 5.76 12.03 3.86
Turun yliopisto 12.60 2.65 8.54 6.59 2.45 8.11 4.66 11.81 2.69
Åbo Akademi 13.01 0.00 3.07 4.35 0.32 4.86 2.34 8.94 3.51

15. Some altmetrics are able to
reflect institutional research
profiles, suggesting at their
connection to scholarly
communication.
Research in certain fields of
science is more likely to gain
more attention on specific
platforms (e.g. medical
research on Twitter).

16. Our future research will
continue to investigate
why some research gain
higher attention on some
platforms compared to
other research.

17. Vă mulțumim
pentru atenție
Kim Holmberg
kim.j.holmberg@utu.fi
http://kimholmberg.fi
@kholmber