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Digital identity and the online self: Footprint strategies – An exploratory and comparative research study

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Science, October 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Readers on

mendeley
238 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Digital identity and the online self: Footprint strategies – An exploratory and comparative research study
Published in
Journal of Information Science, October 2019
DOI 10.1177/0165551519879702
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 238 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 9%
Lecturer 15 6%
Student > Bachelor 10 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 3%
Other 31 13%
Unknown 129 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 32 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 10%
Computer Science 19 8%
Arts and Humanities 7 3%
Psychology 7 3%
Other 17 7%
Unknown 133 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 July 2025.
All research outputs
#3,521,201
of 28,878,938 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Science
#71
of 751 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#62,548
of 376,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Science
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,878,938 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 751 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 6 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