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User Motivations in Protecting Information Security: Protection Motivation Theory Versus Self-Determination Theory

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Management Information Systems, January 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 312)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)

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5 news outlets
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3 X users

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559 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
User Motivations in Protecting Information Security: Protection Motivation Theory Versus Self-Determination Theory
Published in
Journal of Management Information Systems, January 2018
DOI 10.1080/07421222.2017.1394083
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 559 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 71 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 56 10%
Student > Master 48 9%
Lecturer 38 7%
Student > Bachelor 25 4%
Other 86 15%
Unknown 235 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 110 20%
Computer Science 101 18%
Social Sciences 29 5%
Psychology 21 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 2%
Other 48 9%
Unknown 237 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 10 April 2018.
All research outputs
#819,535
of 23,028,364 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Management Information Systems
#12
of 312 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,887
of 442,164 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Management Information Systems
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,028,364 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 312 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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