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ASK FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: PART I. BACKGROUND AND THEORY

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Documentation, February 1982
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Article details
Title
ASK FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: PART I. BACKGROUND AND THEORY
Published in
Journal of Documentation, February 1982
DOI 10.1108/eb026722
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 374 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 16 4%
United Kingdom 8 2%
Germany 7 2%
Canada 4 1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
China 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 9 2%
Unknown 320 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 79 21%
Student > Master 53 14%
Librarian 26 7%
Researcher 24 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 6%
Other 86 23%
Unknown 84 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 146 39%
Social Sciences 64 17%
Arts and Humanities 21 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 5%
Engineering 8 2%
Other 30 8%
Unknown 88 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 14 September 2022.
All research outputs
#7,375,533
of 33,895,178 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Documentation
#158
of 752 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,121
of 41,308 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Documentation
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,895,178 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 752 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4 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