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A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities

Overview of attention for article published in Current Sociology, June 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
7 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

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650 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities
Published in
Current Sociology, June 2011
DOI 10.1177/0011392111402585
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 8 1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 631 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 143 22%
Student > Master 61 9%
Researcher 59 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 44 7%
Lecturer 38 6%
Other 124 19%
Unknown 181 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 228 35%
Business, Management and Accounting 72 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 4%
Arts and Humanities 19 3%
Other 86 13%
Unknown 197 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 23 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,377,267
of 34,156,109 outputs
Outputs from Current Sociology
#51
of 1,059 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,085
of 165,977 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Sociology
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,156,109 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,059 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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