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Undergraduates’ personal circumstances, expectations and reasons for attending university

Overview of attention for article published in Studies in Higher Education, October 2015
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (56th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Undergraduates’ personal circumstances, expectations and reasons for attending university
Published in
Studies in Higher Education, October 2015
DOI 10.1080/03075079.2015.1099623
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 95 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 26%
Student > Bachelor 9 9%
Researcher 9 9%
Lecturer 7 7%
Student > Master 6 6%
Other 19 20%
Unknown 22 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 22 23%
Psychology 19 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 7%
Computer Science 5 5%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 26 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 2026.
All research outputs
#8,821,748
of 32,439,039 outputs
Outputs from Studies in Higher Education
#674
of 1,660 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#84,291
of 313,269 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Studies in Higher Education
#13
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,439,039 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,660 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% 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 313,269 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.