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Cognitive Biases in Performance Appraisal: Experimental Evidence on Anchoring and Halo Effects With Public Sector Managers and Employees

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Public Personnel Administration, April 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 375)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
policy
3 policy sources
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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210 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Cognitive Biases in Performance Appraisal: Experimental Evidence on Anchoring and Halo Effects With Public Sector Managers and Employees
Published in
Review of Public Personnel Administration, April 2017
DOI 10.1177/0734371x17704891
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 210 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 14%
Student > Master 22 10%
Lecturer 15 7%
Student > Bachelor 13 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 4%
Other 25 12%
Unknown 97 46%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 40 19%
Social Sciences 30 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 15 7%
Psychology 10 5%
Arts and Humanities 5 2%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 100 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 30 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,379,358
of 34,437,553 outputs
Outputs from Review of Public Personnel Administration
#11
of 375 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,495
of 355,132 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Public Personnel Administration
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,437,553 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 375 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 12 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 91% of its contemporaries.