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Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Informetrics, May 2018
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)

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Title
Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools
Published in
Journal of Informetrics, May 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2018.03.005
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 437 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 13%
Researcher 36 8%
Lecturer 26 6%
Student > Bachelor 23 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 5%
Other 87 20%
Unknown 188 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 50 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 47 11%
Engineering 29 7%
Computer Science 23 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 3%
Other 69 16%
Unknown 205 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 April 2018.
All research outputs
#6,018,381
of 27,788,803 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Informetrics
#284
of 785 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,602
of 344,354 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Informetrics
#9
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,788,803 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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 63% of its peers.
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