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Social Media for Selection? Validity and Adverse Impact Potential of a Facebook-Based Assessment

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Management, July 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
91 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
532 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Social Media for Selection? Validity and Adverse Impact Potential of a Facebook-Based Assessment
Published in
Journal of Management, July 2016
DOI 10.1177/0149206313515524
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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 Kingdom 3 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 521 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 92 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 91 17%
Student > Bachelor 50 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 47 9%
Researcher 26 5%
Other 83 16%
Unknown 143 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 142 27%
Business, Management and Accounting 138 26%
Social Sciences 34 6%
Computer Science 12 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 2%
Other 38 7%
Unknown 158 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 122. 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 23 June 2026.
All research outputs
#435,291
of 34,348,536 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Management
#64
of 1,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,252
of 336,217 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Management
#5
of 86 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,348,536 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 1,689 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 336,217 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 86 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.