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On Academic Rankings, Unacceptable Methods, and the Social Obligations of Business Schools

Overview of attention for article published in Decision Sciences, April 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 264)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

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9 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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19 X users

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55 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
On Academic Rankings, Unacceptable Methods, and the Social Obligations of Business Schools
Published in
Decision Sciences, April 2017
DOI 10.1111/deci.12274
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 55 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 24%
Student > Master 7 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Professor 3 5%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 14 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 18 33%
Social Sciences 8 15%
Computer Science 3 5%
Decision Sciences 3 5%
Philosophy 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 19 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 90. 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 12 September 2017.
All research outputs
#554,127
of 29,695,593 outputs
Outputs from Decision Sciences
#2
of 264 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,873
of 334,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Decision Sciences
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,695,593 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 264 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. 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 334,561 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 2 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