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Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores

Overview of attention for article published in Higher Education, May 2010
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
1 X user

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Article details
Title
Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores
Published in
Higher Education, May 2010
DOI 10.1007/s10734-010-9339-1
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
United States 2 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 209 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 16%
Researcher 30 13%
Student > Master 27 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 16 7%
Other 50 22%
Unknown 47 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 70 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 41 18%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 18 8%
Arts and Humanities 13 6%
Computer Science 8 4%
Other 26 12%
Unknown 48 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 21 November 2022.
All research outputs
#2,443,377
of 28,583,110 outputs
Outputs from Higher Education
#251
of 1,900 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,873
of 116,697 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Higher Education
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,583,110 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,900 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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