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A double-edged sword: the merits and the policy implications of Google Translate in higher education

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Higher Education, April 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 265)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
A double-edged sword: the merits and the policy implications of Google Translate in higher education
Published in
European Journal of Higher Education, April 2016
DOI 10.1080/21568235.2016.1172248
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 132 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 22 17%
Student > Master 10 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 59 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 26 20%
Social Sciences 20 15%
Arts and Humanities 12 9%
Psychology 3 2%
Engineering 2 2%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 58 44%
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 17 September 2024.
All research outputs
#4,433,492
of 29,516,076 outputs
Outputs from European Journal of Higher Education
#46
of 265 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#61,057
of 321,706 outputs
Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Higher Education
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,516,076 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 265 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 321,706 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 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