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Predicting citations to journal articles: The ideal number of references

Overview of attention for article published in The American Sociologist, March 1991
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Article details
Title
Predicting citations to journal articles: The ideal number of references
Published in
The American Sociologist, March 1991
DOI 10.1007/bf02691867
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 5%
Kenya 1 5%
United Kingdom 1 5%
Unknown 18 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 33%
Librarian 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Professor 2 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 10%
Other 5 24%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 10%
Philosophy 1 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 5 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 01 July 2019.
All research outputs
#9,210,953
of 28,825,213 outputs
Outputs from The American Sociologist
#75
of 283 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,188
of 19,553 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The American Sociologist
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,825,213 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 283 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 19,553 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them