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Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market

Overview of attention for article published in Big Data & Society, September 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#22 of 964)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
14 news outlets
policy
8 policy sources
twitter
30 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

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mendeley
184 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market
Published in
Big Data & Society, September 2021
DOI 10.1177/20539517211043240
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 184 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 11%
Student > Master 11 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 5%
Student > Bachelor 9 5%
Lecturer 7 4%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 113 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 23 13%
Social Sciences 19 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 5%
Computer Science 4 2%
Arts and Humanities 3 2%
Other 9 5%
Unknown 116 63%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 155. 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 December 2025.
All research outputs
#333,564
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Big Data & Society
#22
of 964 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,954
of 463,533 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Big Data & Society
#2
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 964 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 34 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 94% of its contemporaries.