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What are communities of practice? A comparative review of four seminal works

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Science, December 2005
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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 789)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)

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1 policy source
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4 X users
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
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1 podcast

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1210 Mendeley
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21 CiteULike
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2 Connotea
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Article details
Title
What are communities of practice? A comparative review of four seminal works
Published in
Journal of Information Science, December 2005
DOI 10.1177/0165551505057016
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 21 2%
United Kingdom 20 2%
Canada 7 <1%
South Africa 6 <1%
Australia 6 <1%
Portugal 6 <1%
Brazil 6 <1%
Ireland 5 <1%
Sweden 4 <1%
Other 35 3%
Unknown 1094 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 268 22%
Student > Master 233 19%
Researcher 109 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 104 9%
Student > Postgraduate 70 6%
Other 269 22%
Unknown 157 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 378 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 205 17%
Computer Science 102 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 68 6%
Arts and Humanities 54 4%
Other 216 18%
Unknown 187 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 10 October 2026.
All research outputs
#2,643,275
of 32,178,296 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Science
#46
of 789 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,886
of 207,079 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Science
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,178,296 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 789 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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