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Towards a value theory for personal data

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Technology, March 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#42 of 257)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Readers on

mendeley
219 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Towards a value theory for personal data
Published in
Journal of Information Technology, March 2017
DOI 10.1057/jit.2016.4
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 218 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 13%
Student > Bachelor 23 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 7%
Researcher 11 5%
Other 28 13%
Unknown 82 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 49 22%
Computer Science 24 11%
Social Sciences 20 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 6%
Engineering 5 2%
Other 14 6%
Unknown 93 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 21 September 2026.
All research outputs
#5,911,804
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Technology
#42
of 257 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#73,885
of 352,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Technology
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 257 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 5 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