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Open to Open? An Exploration of Textbook Preferences and Strategies to Offset Textbook Costs for Online Versus On-Campus Students

Overview of attention for article published in International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, January 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (55th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Open to Open? An Exploration of Textbook Preferences and Strategies to Offset Textbook Costs for Online Versus On-Campus Students
Published in
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, January 2020
DOI 10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4141
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 10 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 12%
Student > Master 8 10%
Researcher 6 7%
Librarian 3 4%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 38 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 10 12%
Social Sciences 9 11%
Psychology 7 8%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Computer Science 4 5%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 44 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 19 December 2025.
All research outputs
#6,622,411
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
#86
of 569 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#110,748
of 521,745 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
#4
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 569 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.