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Hearing it through the grapevine Positive and negative workplace gossip

Overview of attention for article published in Organizational Dynamics, January 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
googleplus
1 Google+ user
podcasts
1 podcast

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189 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Hearing it through the grapevine Positive and negative workplace gossip
Published in
Organizational Dynamics, January 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2011.12.007
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Mendeley demographics

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 189 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Trinidad and Tobago 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 186 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 19%
Student > Bachelor 27 14%
Student > Master 23 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Professor 6 3%
Other 26 14%
Unknown 61 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 50 26%
Psychology 29 15%
Social Sciences 19 10%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Engineering 4 2%
Other 15 8%
Unknown 67 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 04 April 2026.
All research outputs
#2,029,416
of 32,429,828 outputs
Outputs from Organizational Dynamics
#53
of 403 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,446
of 293,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Organizational Dynamics
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,429,828 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 403 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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