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The Disaster of the Impact Factor

Overview of attention for article published in Science and Engineering Ethics, January 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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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19 X users
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2 Wikipedia pages

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169 Mendeley
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Title
The Disaster of the Impact Factor
Published in
Science and Engineering Ethics, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/s11948-014-9517-0
Pubmed ID
Authors

Khaled Moustafa

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 169 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 167 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 8%
Researcher 14 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 5%
Professor 8 5%
Other 18 11%
Unknown 92 54%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 6%
Computer Science 7 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 4%
Other 25 15%
Unknown 94 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 07 July 2023.
All research outputs
#2,341,691
of 25,759,158 outputs
Outputs from Science and Engineering Ethics
#185
of 975 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,291
of 324,939 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science and Engineering Ethics
#3
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,759,158 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 975 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% 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 324,939 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.