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Colleges’ and universities’ use of Twitter: A content analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Public Relations Review, November 2012
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7 X users

Citations

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Readers on

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146 Mendeley
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Title
Colleges’ and universities’ use of Twitter: A content analysis
Published in
Public Relations Review, November 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.05.010
Authors

Darren L. Linvill, Sara E. McGee, Laura K. Hicks

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
Canada 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Unknown 134 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 14%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 10%
Lecturer 12 8%
Other 34 23%
Unknown 28 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 51 35%
Computer Science 19 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 10%
Arts and Humanities 9 6%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 29 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 03 June 2015.
All research outputs
#6,528,121
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Public Relations Review
#162
of 723 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,374
of 202,248 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Relations Review
#2
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,371,288 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 723 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.