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Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, November 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
18 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
googleplus
5 Google+ users
video
1 YouTube creator

Readers on

mendeley
305 Mendeley
citeulike
10 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?
Published in
Scientometrics, November 2011
DOI 10.1007/s11192-011-0561-0
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 6 2%
Spain 6 2%
United Kingdom 6 2%
United States 5 2%
Australia 3 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
France 3 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Other 16 5%
Unknown 251 82%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 46 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 14%
Librarian 32 10%
Student > Master 32 10%
Professor 31 10%
Other 79 26%
Unknown 41 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 58 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 10%
Computer Science 26 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 26 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 6%
Other 86 28%
Unknown 59 19%
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 05 May 2022.
All research outputs
#1,164,871
of 32,630,464 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#131
of 3,488 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,981
of 291,667 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#2
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,630,464 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 3,488 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.