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To Rank or Not to Rank with Indices? That Is the Question

Overview of attention for article published in Sustainability, July 2020
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Article details
Title
To Rank or Not to Rank with Indices? That Is the Question
Published in
Sustainability, July 2020
DOI 10.3390/su12145572
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 6%
Lecturer 1 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Student > Master 1 6%
Researcher 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 10 63%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 4 25%
Environmental Science 1 6%
Computer Science 1 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 6%
Unknown 9 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 15 September 2020.
All research outputs
#14,209,103
of 23,230,825 outputs
Outputs from Sustainability
#7,715
of 19,556 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#213,560
of 397,211 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sustainability
#414
of 985 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,230,825 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 37th percentile – i.e., 37% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 19,556 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% 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 397,211 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 985 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.