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Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries

Overview of attention for article published in Higher Education Research and Development, October 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 1,764)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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6 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
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76 X users
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2 Bluesky users

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188 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Students’ views about the purpose of higher education: a comparative analysis of six European countries
Published in
Higher Education Research and Development, October 2020
DOI 10.1080/07294360.2020.1830039
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 188 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 17 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 9%
Lecturer 15 8%
Student > Master 10 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 4%
Other 30 16%
Unknown 92 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 43 23%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 6%
Arts and Humanities 7 4%
Engineering 7 4%
Mathematics 4 2%
Other 17 9%
Unknown 98 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 109. 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 14 June 2026.
All research outputs
#491,629
of 34,562,876 outputs
Outputs from Higher Education Research and Development
#6
of 1,764 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,722
of 472,274 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Higher Education Research and Development
#2
of 55 outputs
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