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Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Business Venturing, May 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 791)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)

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7 news outlets
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2 blogs
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4 X users

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453 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach
Published in
Journal of Business Venturing, May 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.02.002
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 449 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 78 17%
Student > Master 49 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 37 8%
Student > Bachelor 26 6%
Lecturer 21 5%
Other 86 19%
Unknown 156 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 190 42%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 25 6%
Social Sciences 24 5%
Psychology 18 4%
Unspecified 8 2%
Other 25 6%
Unknown 163 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 29 June 2025.
All research outputs
#729,295
of 28,583,736 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Business Venturing
#36
of 791 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,196
of 332,946 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Business Venturing
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,583,736 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 791 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 332,946 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 96% of its contemporaries.
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