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Counting citations in the field of business and management: why use Google Scholar rather than the Web of Science

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, April 2012
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Title
Counting citations in the field of business and management: why use Google Scholar rather than the Web of Science
Published in
Scientometrics, April 2012
DOI 10.1007/s11192-012-0729-2
Authors

Nabil Amara, Réjean Landry

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 6 5%
United States 3 2%
Brazil 2 2%
Australia 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 101 82%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 15%
Researcher 17 14%
Student > Master 14 11%
Librarian 12 10%
Professor 12 10%
Other 40 33%
Unknown 10 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 24%
Computer Science 27 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 19%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 9%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 13 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 31 May 2012.
All research outputs
#16,291,909
of 24,973,800 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#2,052
of 2,864 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#103,969
of 166,075 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#18
of 27 outputs
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