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Some reflections on being cited 10,000 times

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, December 2018
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Title
Some reflections on being cited 10,000 times
Published in
Scientometrics, December 2018
DOI 10.1007/s11192-018-2966-5
Authors

James Hartley

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 3 21%
Researcher 3 21%
Librarian 2 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Unspecified 1 7%
Other 2 14%
Unknown 2 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 29%
Computer Science 3 21%
Engineering 2 14%
Arts and Humanities 1 7%
Psychology 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 2 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 11 February 2019.
All research outputs
#6,846,906
of 24,814,419 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#1,188
of 2,853 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#131,534
of 447,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#24
of 47 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,814,419 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,853 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 58% 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 447,499 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 47 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its contemporaries.