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Can learning be virtually boosted? An investigation of online social networking impacts

Overview of attention for article published in Computers & Education, December 2010
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
626 Mendeley
citeulike
8 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Can learning be virtually boosted? An investigation of online social networking impacts
Published in
Computers & Education, December 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.06.015
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 19 3%
United Kingdom 8 1%
Malaysia 5 <1%
Spain 4 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Other 10 2%
Unknown 566 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 112 18%
Student > Master 88 14%
Student > Bachelor 57 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 51 8%
Researcher 42 7%
Other 156 25%
Unknown 120 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 169 27%
Computer Science 99 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 56 9%
Psychology 54 9%
Arts and Humanities 23 4%
Other 84 13%
Unknown 141 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 23 May 2020.
All research outputs
#2,606,297
of 28,841,988 outputs
Outputs from Computers & Education
#224
of 2,341 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,404
of 209,640 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Computers & Education
#1
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,841,988 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,341 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.3. 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 39 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.