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Issues in the Interpretation of “Altmetrics” Digital Traces: A Review

Overview of attention for article published in Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA), October 2018
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Title
Issues in the Interpretation of “Altmetrics” Digital Traces: A Review
Published in
Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA), October 2018
DOI 10.3389/frma.2018.00029
Authors

Shenmeng Xu

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 5 22%
Researcher 5 22%
Student > Master 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 4 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 26%
Computer Science 3 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Decision Sciences 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 6 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2019.
All research outputs
#2,385,959
of 26,556,112 outputs
Outputs from Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA)
#93
of 381 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,844
of 359,333 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research Metrics and Analytics (RMA)
#6
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,556,112 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 381 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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