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The mythology of feedback

Overview of attention for article published in Higher Education Research and Development, August 2011
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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 (82nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
The mythology of feedback
Published in
Higher Education Research and Development, August 2011
DOI 10.1080/07294360.2010.526096
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
Australia 3 2%
United States 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Unknown 175 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 13%
Student > Master 21 11%
Lecturer 18 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 10%
Researcher 13 7%
Other 42 23%
Unknown 49 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 43 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 10%
Arts and Humanities 13 7%
Psychology 11 6%
Linguistics 9 5%
Other 38 20%
Unknown 53 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 06 November 2018.
All research outputs
#5,883,191
of 34,410,315 outputs
Outputs from Higher Education Research and Development
#427
of 1,747 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,979
of 167,428 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Higher Education Research and Development
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,410,315 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,747 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% 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 167,428 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 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