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      <h2 class="infopage-heading">About</h2>


      <p>Impactstory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products&mdash;from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software. By helping scientists tell data-driven stories about their impacts, we're helping to build a new scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship. We’re funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.

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      <p>Impactstory delivers <em>open metrics</em>, with <em>context</em>, for <em>diverse products</em>:</p>
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         <li><b>Open metrics</b>: Our data (to the extent allowed by providers’ terms of service), <a href="https://github.com/total-impact">code</a>, and <a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/2012/03/01/18535014681/">governance</a> are all open.</li>
         <li><b>With context</b>: To help scientists move from raw <a href="http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/">altmetrics</a> data to <a href="http://asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Piwowar_Priem.html">impact profiles</a> that tell data-driven stories, we sort metrics by <em>engagement type</em> and <em>audience</em>. We also normalize based on comparison sets: an evaluator may not know if 5 forks on GitHub is a lot of attention, but they can understand immediately if their project ranked in the 95th percentile of all GitHub repos created that year.</li>
         <li><b>Diverse products</b>: Datasets, software, slides, and other research products are presented as an integrated section of a comprehensive impact report, alongside articles&mdash;each genre a first-class citizen, each making its own kind of impact.</li>
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      <h3 id="team">team</h3>

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         <p><strong>Heather Piwowar</strong> is a cofounder of Impactstory and a leading researcher in research data availability and data reuse. She wrote one of the first papers measuring the <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308">citation benefit of publicly available research data</a>, has studied  <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0018657">patterns in  data archiving</a>, <a href="https://peerj.com/preprints/1/">patterns of data reuse</a>, and the <a href="http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/journalpolicyproposal">impact of journal data sharing policies</a>.</p>

         <p>Heather has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT in electrical engineering, 10 years of experience as a software engineer, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from the U of Pittsburgh.  She is an <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar">frequent speaker</a> on research data archiving, writes a well-respected <a href="http://researchremix.wordpress.com">research blog</a>, and is active on twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/researchremix">@researchremix</a>). </p>
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         <p><strong>Jason Priem</strong> is a cofounder of Impactstory and a doctoral student in information science (currently on leave of absence) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Since <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonpriem/status/25844968813">coining the term "altmetrics,"</a> he's remained active in the field, organizing the annual <a href="http:altmetrics.org/altmetrics12">altmetrics workshops</a>, giving <a href="http://jasonpriem.org/cv/#invited">invited talks</a>, and publishing <a href="http://jasonpriem.org/cv/#refereed">peer-reviewed altmetrics research.</a></p>

         <p>Jason has contributed to and created several open-source software projects, including <a href="http://www.zotero.org">Zotero</a> and <a href="http://feedvis.com">Feedvis</a>, and has experience and training in art, design, and information visualisation.  Sometimes he writes on a <a href="http://jasonpriem.org/blog">blog</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/jasonpriem">tweets</a>.</p>
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      <h3 id="history">history</h3>
      <p>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. Months of spare-time development followed, then funding.  We’ve got the same excitement for Impactstory today.</p>

      <p>In early 2012, Impactstory was given £17,000 through the <a href="http://beyond-impact.org/">Beyond Impact project</a> from the <a href="http://www.soros.org/">Open Society Foundation</a>.  Today Impactstory is funded by the <a href="http://sloan.org/">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</a>, first through <a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/2012/03/29/20131290500/">a $125,000 grant</a> in mid 2012 and then <a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/2013/06/17/sloan/">a two-year grant for $500,000</a> starting in 2013.  We also received <a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/2013/09/27/impactstory-awarded-300k-nsf-grant/">a $300,000 grant</a> from the National Science Foundation to study how automatically-gathered impact metrics can improve the reuse of research software. </p>

      <h3 id="why">philosophy</h3>
      <p>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:</p>
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         <li><a href="https://github.com/total-impact">open source</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/2012/06/08/24638498595/">free and open data</a>, to the extent permitted by data providers</li>
         <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_transparency">Radical transparency</a> and <a href="http://blog.impactstory.org">open communication</a></li>
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      <h3 id="board">board of directors</h3>

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         <p><strong>Heather Joseph</strong> is the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/">Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)</a> and the convener of the
            <a href="http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/">Alliance for Taxpayer Access</a>. Prior to coming to SPARC, she spent 15 years as a publisher in both commercial and not-for-profit publishing organizations. She served as the publishing director at the American Society for Cell Biology, which became the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s pioneering open repository, PubMed Central.</p>

         <p>Heather serves on the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations, including the
            <a href="http://www.plos.org">Public Library of Science</a>.  She is a frequent speaker and writer on scholarly communications in general, and on open access in particular.</p>
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         <p><strong>Ethan White</strong> is an Associate Professor at Utah State University. He studies ecological systems using data-intensive approaches and is actively involved in open approaches to science. He has written papers on <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4033/iee.2013.6b.6.f">data management and sharing</a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745">best practices in computational science</a>, and <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001563">the benefits of preprints in biology</a>.</p>
         <p>Ethan has a PhD in Biology from the University of New Mexico, was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in biological informatics, and is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER 'Young Investigators' Award. He speaks frequently about data-intensive approaches to ecology, co-writes a <a href="http://jabberwocky.weecology.org">blog on ecology, academia, and open science</a>, develops material and serves as an instructor for <a href=”http://software-carpentry.org/”>Software Carpentry</a>, and is active on Twitter(<a href="https://twitter.com/ethanwhite/">@ethanwhite</a>).</p>
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         <p><strong>John Wilbanks</strong> works at <a href="http://www.sagebase.org/our-leadership/">Sage Bionetworks</a>, which helps build <a href="http://www.sagebase.org/governance/">tools and policies</a> that help <a href="http://www.sagebase.org/bridge/">networks of people who have their health data</a> share it with <a href="http://synapse.sagebase.org">networks of people who like to analyze health data</a>.
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         <p>Previously, John worked at Harvard’s <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu">Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society</a>, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/" title="Semantic Web - World Wide Web Consortium" target="_self">World Wide Web Consortium</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Stark" title='Fortney "Pete" Stark' target="_self">US House of Representatives</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org" title="Creative Commons" target="_self">Creative Commons</a>, and the <a href="http://kauffman.org">Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation</a>. John also serves on the board of the non-profit
            <a href="http://earthsciencefoundation.org/">Foundation for Earth Science</a> and advisory boards for companies including <a href="http://www.boundlesslearning.com/">Boundless Learning</a>,  <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/curious-inc">Curious</a>,  <a href="http://genomera.com">Genomera</a>, <a href="http://www.qualcommlife.com/">Qualcomm Life</a>, <a href="http://patientslikeme.com">Patients Like Me</a>, and <a href="http://www.genospace.com/">GenoSpace</a>.</p>
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         <h3>Contact and FAQ</h3>
         <p>We'd love to hear your feedback, ideas, or just chat! Reach us at <a href="mailto:team@impactstory.org">team@impactstory.org</a> or on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Impactstory">Twitter</a>.  Or if you've got questions, check out our <a href="/faq">FAQ</a>.</p>
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