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Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, June 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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1 blog
policy
3 policy sources
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1 X user

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Title
Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases
Published in
Scientometrics, June 2013
DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0115-z
Authors

Éric Archambault, Étienne Vignola-Gagné, Grégoire Côté, Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingrasb

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 7 3%
Brazil 3 1%
Germany 3 1%
United States 2 <1%
Croatia 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 6 2%
Unknown 231 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 49 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 14%
Librarian 24 9%
Student > Master 23 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 8%
Other 81 31%
Unknown 25 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 100 39%
Business, Management and Accounting 27 10%
Computer Science 21 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 19 7%
Arts and Humanities 19 7%
Other 39 15%
Unknown 34 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 02 July 2023.
All research outputs
#1,865,543
of 23,994,935 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#359
of 2,791 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,975
of 200,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#2
of 51 outputs
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