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Measuring research success via bibliometrics: where they fit and how they help and hinder

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, December 2014
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Title
Measuring research success via bibliometrics: where they fit and how they help and hinder
Published in
Journal of Advanced Nursing, December 2014
DOI 10.1111/jan.12610
Pubmed ID
Authors

David R. Thompson, Alexander M. Clark

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 4 14%
Student > Master 4 14%
Researcher 3 11%
Professor 2 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Other 8 29%
Unknown 5 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 14%
Computer Science 2 7%
Linguistics 1 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Other 6 21%
Unknown 6 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 10 December 2016.
All research outputs
#1,491,099
of 24,602,766 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Advanced Nursing
#650
of 5,497 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,398
of 362,969 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Advanced Nursing
#13
of 62 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,602,766 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,497 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 362,969 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 62 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.