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A Critique of Hall's Contexting Model

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Business and Technical Communication, October 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#18 of 238)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)

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10 X users
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5 Wikipedia pages
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2 Redditors
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251 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A Critique of Hall's Contexting Model
Published in
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, October 2008
DOI 10.1177/1050651908320361
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Spain 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Unknown 244 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 14%
Student > Bachelor 21 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Lecturer 12 5%
Other 40 16%
Unknown 86 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 56 22%
Social Sciences 32 13%
Linguistics 18 7%
Computer Science 13 5%
Psychology 10 4%
Other 35 14%
Unknown 87 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 20 October 2026.
All research outputs
#3,754,468
of 34,619,351 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Business and Technical Communication
#18
of 238 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,842
of 144,259 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Business and Technical Communication
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,619,351 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 238 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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