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Is What Glitters Really Gold? A Quasi-Experimental Study of First-Year Seminars and College Student Success

Overview of attention for article published in Research in Higher Education, April 2019
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Title
Is What Glitters Really Gold? A Quasi-Experimental Study of First-Year Seminars and College Student Success
Published in
Research in Higher Education, April 2019
DOI 10.1007/s11162-019-09558-8
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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 18%
Researcher 5 8%
Student > Master 4 7%
Lecturer 3 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 31 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 13 21%
Psychology 5 8%
Linguistics 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Engineering 2 3%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 29 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 17 April 2020.
All research outputs
#18,453,270
of 29,007,675 outputs
Outputs from Research in Higher Education
#659
of 828 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#210,598
of 369,204 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research in Higher Education
#9
of 12 outputs
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