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The ‘Impact Opportunity’ for Academic Libraries through Grey Literature

Overview of attention for article published in The Serials Librarian, December 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The ‘Impact Opportunity’ for Academic Libraries through Grey Literature
Published in
The Serials Librarian, December 2020
DOI 10.1080/0361526x.2020.1847744
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 57 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 14 25%
Unspecified 3 5%
Other 3 5%
Student > Bachelor 3 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 5%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 26 46%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 30%
Arts and Humanities 5 9%
Unspecified 3 5%
Computer Science 2 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 25 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 14 April 2021.
All research outputs
#4,759,222
of 27,821,754 outputs
Outputs from The Serials Librarian
#54
of 352 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#110,038
of 535,176 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Serials Librarian
#3
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,821,754 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 352 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 535,176 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 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.