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Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation

Overview of attention for article published in Annals of Tourism Research, September 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation
Published in
Annals of Tourism Research, September 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.004
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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 10 18%
Student > Bachelor 8 15%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Lecturer 4 7%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 12 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 29%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 15%
Computer Science 4 7%
Arts and Humanities 3 5%
Design 3 5%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 14 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 15 April 2019.
All research outputs
#1,774,939
of 27,788,586 outputs
Outputs from Annals of Tourism Research
#109
of 1,272 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,108
of 330,586 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annals of Tourism Research
#2
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,788,586 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,272 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 330,586 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.