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Reliability and accuracy of altmetric providers: a comparison among Altmetric.com, PlumX and Crossref Event Data

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, July 2018
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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2 blogs
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130 Mendeley
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Title
Reliability and accuracy of altmetric providers: a comparison among Altmetric.com, PlumX and Crossref Event Data
Published in
Scientometrics, July 2018
DOI 10.1007/s11192-018-2838-z
Authors

José Luis Ortega

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 130 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 24 18%
Researcher 15 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Other 9 7%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Other 33 25%
Unknown 28 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 27 21%
Social Sciences 24 18%
Arts and Humanities 10 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 24 18%
Unknown 33 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. 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 30 September 2021.
All research outputs
#1,118,709
of 24,552,012 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#163
of 2,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,394
of 332,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#7
of 66 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,552,012 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 2,828 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 94% 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 332,499 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 66 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 90% of its contemporaries.