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The “invisible hand” of peer review: The implications of author-referee networks on peer review in a scholarly journal

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Informetrics, May 2019
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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 894)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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4 blogs
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166 X users
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2 Redditors

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Article details
Title
The “invisible hand” of peer review: The implications of author-referee networks on peer review in a scholarly journal
Published in
Journal of Informetrics, May 2019
DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2019.03.018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 77 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 22%
Student > Master 11 14%
Researcher 11 14%
Other 8 10%
Professor 5 6%
Other 15 19%
Unknown 10 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 22%
Computer Science 8 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 8%
Arts and Humanities 4 5%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Other 18 23%
Unknown 21 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 122. 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 25 December 2023.
All research outputs
#435,628
of 34,627,414 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Informetrics
#11
of 894 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,408
of 393,772 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Informetrics
#1
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,627,414 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 894 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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