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Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, November 2007
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
521 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
672 Mendeley
citeulike
12 CiteULike
connotea
2 Connotea
Title
Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar
Published in
Scientometrics, November 2007
DOI 10.1007/s11192-008-0216-y
Authors

Judit Bar-Ilan

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 13 2%
Germany 8 1%
Netherlands 8 1%
Portugal 7 1%
Spain 6 <1%
Mexico 5 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Malaysia 4 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Other 29 4%
Unknown 583 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 96 14%
Student > Master 86 13%
Researcher 84 13%
Librarian 82 12%
Professor 51 8%
Other 178 26%
Unknown 95 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 127 19%
Computer Science 121 18%
Business, Management and Accounting 60 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 42 6%
Engineering 37 6%
Other 160 24%
Unknown 125 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. 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 24 July 2019.
All research outputs
#1,002,338
of 24,288,381 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#137
of 2,813 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,840
of 163,338 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#2
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,288,381 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,813 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 done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 163,338 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.