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A Study of the Use of Nonacademic Factors in Holistic Undergraduate Admissions Reviews

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Higher Education, March 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
reddit
1 Redditor

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78 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A Study of the Use of Nonacademic Factors in Holistic Undergraduate Admissions Reviews
Published in
Journal of Higher Education, March 2019
DOI 10.1080/00221546.2019.1574694
Authors

Don Hossler, Emily Chung, Jihye Kwon, Jerry Lucido, Nicholas Bowman, Michael Bastedo

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 78 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 13 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 14%
Student > Master 6 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 5%
Lecturer 3 4%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 30 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 29%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Unspecified 2 3%
Psychology 2 3%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 35 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 29 July 2023.
All research outputs
#2,239,139
of 34,054,827 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Higher Education
#98
of 885 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,872
of 391,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Higher Education
#2
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,054,827 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 885 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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