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Perceived overqualification and task performance: Reconciling two opposing pathways

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, June 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#40 of 795)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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171 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Perceived overqualification and task performance: Reconciling two opposing pathways
Published in
Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, June 2020
DOI 10.1111/joop.12323
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 171 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 9%
Student > Master 11 6%
Student > Bachelor 10 6%
Lecturer 8 5%
Researcher 7 4%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 100 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 39 23%
Psychology 14 8%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Unspecified 4 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 2%
Other 9 5%
Unknown 97 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 61. 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 31 August 2026.
All research outputs
#878,671
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology
#40
of 795 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,054
of 461,626 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 795 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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