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Understanding Generation Y and their use of social media: a review and research agenda

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Service Management, June 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 251)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
10 X users

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3088 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Understanding Generation Y and their use of social media: a review and research agenda
Published in
Journal of Service Management, June 2013
DOI 10.1108/09564231311326987
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Malaysia 10 <1%
United Kingdom 9 <1%
United States 8 <1%
Turkey 4 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
Other 15 <1%
Unknown 3029 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 554 18%
Student > Bachelor 487 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 339 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 159 5%
Lecturer 139 5%
Other 471 15%
Unknown 939 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 945 31%
Social Sciences 375 12%
Psychology 155 5%
Computer Science 155 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 116 4%
Other 341 11%
Unknown 1001 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 27 May 2025.
All research outputs
#1,276,625
of 29,436,874 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Service Management
#13
of 251 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,232
of 219,909 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Service Management
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,436,874 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 251 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 219,909 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 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