team
Heather Piwowar is a postdoc research associate with Duke University and the University of British Columbia, funded through the DataONE project at the Dryad Digital Repository at NESCent.
Heather is a leading researcher in the area of research data availability and data reuse. She wrote one of the first papers to measure the
citation benefit of publicly available research data
, studied
patterns in public deposition of datasets
, and is currently investigating
patterns of data reuse
and the impact of journal data sharing policies.
Heather is an frequent speaker on research data archiving, writes a well-respected research blog , and is active on twitter (). Heather has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT in electrical engineering, 10 years of experience as a software engineer in small companies, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh.
Jason Priem is a PhD student and Royster Fellow , studying information science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Since he's remained active in the field, organizing the annual altmetrics workshops , giving invited talks , and publishing peer-reviewed altmetrics research.
Jason has contributed to and created several open-source software projects, including Zotero and Feedvis , and has experience and training in art, design, and information visualisation. Sometimes he writes on a blog and .
history
ImpactStory began life as total-impact, a hackathon project at the Beyond Impact workshop in 2011. As the hackathon ended, a few of us migrated into a hotel hallway to continue working, eventually completing a 24-hour coding marathon to finish a prototype. After months of spare-time development and then funding, we’ve got the same excitement for total-impact today.
In early 2012, ImpactStory was given £17,000 through the Beyond Impact project from the Open Society Foundation . As of May 2012, ImpactStory is funded through a $125k grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
philosophy
As a philanthropically-funded not-for-profit, we're in this because we believe open altmetrics are key for building the coming era of Web-native science. We're committed to:
- open source
- , to the extent permitted by data providers
- Radical transparency and
Contact and FAQ
We'd love to hear your feedback, ideas, or just chat! Reach us at , or via our help forum. Or if you've got questions, lots more information at our FAQ .
