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Who are the objects of positive and negative gossip at work? A social network perspective on workplace gossip

Overview of attention for article published in Social Networks, May 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 1,007)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1 X user
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
300 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Who are the objects of positive and negative gossip at work? A social network perspective on workplace gossip
Published in
Social Networks, May 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.11.003
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 289 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 54 18%
Student > Master 39 13%
Student > Bachelor 33 11%
Researcher 19 6%
Lecturer 15 5%
Other 54 18%
Unknown 86 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 57 19%
Social Sciences 47 16%
Psychology 46 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 3%
Computer Science 8 3%
Other 34 11%
Unknown 100 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 133. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#395,134
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Social Networks
#7
of 1,007 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,585
of 213,132 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Networks
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,007 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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