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A Social Network Analysis of Positive and Negative Gossip in Organizational Life

Overview of attention for article published in Group & Organization Management, February 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#15 of 714)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
video
1 YouTube creator

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360 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A Social Network Analysis of Positive and Negative Gossip in Organizational Life
Published in
Group & Organization Management, February 2010
DOI 10.1177/1059601109360391
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 10 3%
Malaysia 3 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Poland 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 331 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 82 23%
Student > Master 52 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 8%
Researcher 25 7%
Student > Bachelor 22 6%
Other 56 16%
Unknown 95 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 81 23%
Psychology 63 18%
Social Sciences 57 16%
Arts and Humanities 12 3%
Computer Science 9 3%
Other 32 9%
Unknown 106 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 125. 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 30 August 2026.
All research outputs
#421,071
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Group & Organization Management
#15
of 714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,103
of 144,190 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Group & Organization Management
#2
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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