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Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, May 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
blogs
18 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
231 X users
facebook
6 Facebook pages
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
6 Google+ users
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

dimensions_citation
765 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1033 Mendeley
citeulike
25 CiteULike
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Title
Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
Published in
PLOS ONE, May 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0064841
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mike Thelwall, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 231 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,033 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 31 3%
Spain 24 2%
United Kingdom 23 2%
Germany 9 <1%
South Africa 9 <1%
Canada 7 <1%
Netherlands 6 <1%
Japan 4 <1%
Croatia 4 <1%
Other 60 6%
Unknown 856 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 205 20%
Student > Master 133 13%
Researcher 129 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 116 11%
Other 69 7%
Other 258 25%
Unknown 123 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 280 27%
Computer Science 197 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 91 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 6%
Arts and Humanities 57 6%
Other 187 18%
Unknown 160 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 335. 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 06 November 2022.
All research outputs
#101,690
of 25,932,719 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#1,624
of 226,372 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#605
of 209,073 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#30
of 4,786 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,932,719 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 226,372 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 99% of its peers.
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