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On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness

Overview of attention for article published in Social Indicators Research, January 2018
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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10 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
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1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness
Published in
Social Indicators Research, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/s11205-017-1832-9
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1357 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 173 13%
Researcher 130 10%
Student > Master 92 7%
Unspecified 74 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 64 5%
Other 219 16%
Unknown 605 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 118 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 115 8%
Social Sciences 91 7%
Unspecified 73 5%
Environmental Science 70 5%
Other 246 18%
Unknown 644 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. 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 18 August 2026.
All research outputs
#1,458,711
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from Social Indicators Research
#140
of 2,509 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,953
of 495,778 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Indicators Research
#1
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 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 2,509 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 35 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.