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The citation advantage of foreign language references for Chinese social science papers

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, June 2019
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (60th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (58th percentile)

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Title
The citation advantage of foreign language references for Chinese social science papers
Published in
Scientometrics, June 2019
DOI 10.1007/s11192-019-03146-4
Authors

Kaile Gong, Juan Xie, Ying Cheng, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 21%
Researcher 4 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Librarian 2 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 6%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 11 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 42%
Computer Science 6 18%
Linguistics 1 3%
Unknown 12 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 22 August 2019.
All research outputs
#8,364,213
of 25,159,758 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#1,387
of 2,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#139,084
of 357,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#20
of 46 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,159,758 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,876 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 51% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 46 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 58% of its contemporaries.