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Measuring the earnings returns to lifelong learning in the UK

Overview of attention for article published in Economics of Education Review, August 2012
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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 (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Measuring the earnings returns to lifelong learning in the UK
Published in
Economics of Education Review, August 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.12.009
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Unknown 71 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 26%
Researcher 15 21%
Student > Master 8 11%
Other 4 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 18 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 27 37%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 19%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 22 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 11 June 2024.
All research outputs
#1,826,418
of 29,839,249 outputs
Outputs from Economics of Education Review
#323
of 1,865 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,472
of 189,012 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Economics of Education Review
#3
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,839,249 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,865 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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