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The Use of Research to Improve Professional Practice: a systematic review of the literature

Overview of attention for article published in Oxford Review of Education, December 2003
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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 (88th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The Use of Research to Improve Professional Practice: a systematic review of the literature
Published in
Oxford Review of Education, December 2003
DOI 10.1080/0305498032000153025
Authors

JANE HEMSLEY-BROWN, CAROLINE SHARP

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Mendeley demographics

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 279 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 9 3%
United States 5 2%
Canada 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 257 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 19%
Student > Master 40 14%
Researcher 35 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 8%
Lecturer 16 6%
Other 64 23%
Unknown 49 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 130 47%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 8%
Psychology 17 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 3%
Arts and Humanities 7 3%
Other 42 15%
Unknown 53 19%
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 22 November 2024.
All research outputs
#4,784,300
of 32,332,113 outputs
Outputs from Oxford Review of Education
#186
of 721 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,346
of 190,096 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Oxford Review of Education
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,332,113 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 721 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% 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 190,096 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them