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Unraveling the dynamics of growth, aging and inflation for citations to scientific articles from specific research fields

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Informetrics, November 2017
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Article details
Title
Unraveling the dynamics of growth, aging and inflation for citations to scientific articles from specific research fields
Published in
Journal of Informetrics, November 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2017.10.004
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 24%
Researcher 6 16%
Professor 5 13%
Student > Master 5 13%
Other 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 6 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 12 32%
Social Sciences 10 26%
Physics and Astronomy 3 8%
Mathematics 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 7 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 07 December 2017.
All research outputs
#8,604,476
of 27,788,586 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Informetrics
#355
of 785 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#119,677
of 346,699 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Informetrics
#11
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,788,586 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 785 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% 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 346,699 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.