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When snowball sampling leads to an avalanche of fraudulent participants in qualitative research

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Older People Nursing, August 2023
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (76th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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Article details
Title
When snowball sampling leads to an avalanche of fraudulent participants in qualitative research
Published in
International Journal of Older People Nursing, August 2023
DOI 10.1111/opn.12572
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 13%
Researcher 6 10%
Unspecified 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 2 3%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 32 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 5 8%
Unspecified 4 6%
Psychology 4 6%
Computer Science 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 12 19%
Unknown 33 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 02 September 2023.
All research outputs
#6,850,933
of 32,444,292 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Older People Nursing
#99
of 539 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,100
of 372,827 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Older People Nursing
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,444,292 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 539 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% 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 372,827 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 76% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.