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A Preliminary Investigation of Fake Peer-Reviewed Citations and References Generated by ChatGPT

Overview of attention for article published in The Professional Geographer, April 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 (#9 of 856)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
24 X users
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
90 Mendeley
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Title
A Preliminary Investigation of Fake Peer-Reviewed Citations and References Generated by ChatGPT
Published in
The Professional Geographer, April 2023
DOI 10.1080/00330124.2023.2190373
Authors

Terence Day

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 11 12%
Researcher 9 10%
Other 6 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 7%
Other 17 19%
Unknown 35 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 17%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 12%
Computer Science 9 10%
Arts and Humanities 6 7%
Linguistics 3 3%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 35 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 79. 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 10 March 2024.
All research outputs
#541,040
of 25,507,011 outputs
Outputs from The Professional Geographer
#9
of 856 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,150
of 420,577 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Professional Geographer
#2
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,507,011 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 856 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 420,577 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 18 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.