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Visualizing a discipline: An author co‐citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science, December 1998
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 325)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
407 Mendeley
citeulike
8 CiteULike
connotea
1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Visualizing a discipline: An author co‐citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Published in
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, December 1998
DOI 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(19980401)49:4<327::aid-asi4>3.0.co;2-4
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Austria 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Other 8 2%
Unknown 381 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 77 19%
Researcher 44 11%
Student > Master 41 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 30 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 23 6%
Other 102 25%
Unknown 90 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 82 20%
Social Sciences 66 16%
Computer Science 65 16%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 18 4%
Engineering 16 4%
Other 55 14%
Unknown 105 26%
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 26 October 2025.
All research outputs
#3,658,515
of 29,567,820 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the American Society for Information Science
#17
of 325 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,025
of 123,665 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the American Society for Information Science
#13
of 145 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,567,820 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 325 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 123,665 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 145 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 90% of its contemporaries.