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The open academic: Why and how business academics should use social media to be more ‘open’ and impactful

Overview of attention for article published in Business Horizons, January 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 973)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
92 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

dimensions_citation
7 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
51 Mendeley
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Title
The open academic: Why and how business academics should use social media to be more ‘open’ and impactful
Published in
Business Horizons, January 2023
DOI 10.1016/j.bushor.2022.05.001
Authors

Ian P. McCarthy, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 51 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 16%
Professor 5 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 6%
Researcher 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 25 49%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 13 25%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Computer Science 2 4%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 27 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. 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 20 April 2024.
All research outputs
#449,661
of 25,802,847 outputs
Outputs from Business Horizons
#10
of 973 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,577
of 480,688 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Business Horizons
#2
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,802,847 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 973 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 480,688 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.