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Deciphering the sophomore slump: changes to student perceptions during the undergraduate journey

Overview of attention for article published in Higher Education, April 2018
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Title
Deciphering the sophomore slump: changes to student perceptions during the undergraduate journey
Published in
Higher Education, April 2018
DOI 10.1007/s10734-018-0268-8
Authors

O. J. Webb, D. R. E. Cotton

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Researcher 5 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 5%
Other 20 24%
Unknown 32 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 15%
Social Sciences 12 14%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Computer Science 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 35 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 16 May 2018.
All research outputs
#3,616,753
of 23,052,509 outputs
Outputs from Higher Education
#419
of 1,500 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#71,365
of 327,032 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Higher Education
#17
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,052,509 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 84th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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