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Benford’s law and citations, articles and impact factors of scientific journals

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, April 2011
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (70th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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1 blog

Citations

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35 Mendeley
Title
Benford’s law and citations, articles and impact factors of scientific journals
Published in
Scientometrics, April 2011
DOI 10.1007/s11192-011-0387-9
Authors

Juan Miguel Campanario, María Angeles Coslado

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 35 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 3%
Singapore 1 3%
Unknown 33 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Researcher 5 14%
Librarian 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 7 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 17%
Computer Science 5 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 11%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 8 23%
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 31 January 2017.
All research outputs
#5,783,250
of 22,950,943 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#1,019
of 2,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,901
of 95,317 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#4
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,950,943 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 2,689 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 95,317 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.