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Indicators and outcomes of Canadian university research: Proxies becoming goals?

Overview of attention for article published in Research Policy, December 2006
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Indicators and outcomes of Canadian university research: Proxies becoming goals?
Published in
Research Policy, December 2006
DOI 10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.021
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 5 2%
Germany 4 2%
Indonesia 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 218 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 19%
Researcher 31 13%
Student > Master 27 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 21 9%
Other 52 22%
Unknown 42 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 91 38%
Social Sciences 41 17%
Engineering 19 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 16 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Other 21 9%
Unknown 46 19%
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 05 January 2017.
All research outputs
#3,574,544
of 28,738,224 outputs
Outputs from Research Policy
#881
of 2,817 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,600
of 186,390 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research Policy
#7
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,738,224 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 2,817 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% 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 186,390 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 21 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its contemporaries.