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Are Mendeley reader counts useful impact indicators in all fields?

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, October 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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blogs
2 blogs
twitter
1 X user

Citations

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51 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
131 Mendeley
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Title
Are Mendeley reader counts useful impact indicators in all fields?
Published in
Scientometrics, October 2017
DOI 10.1007/s11192-017-2557-x
Authors

Mike Thelwall

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 131 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 131 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 18 14%
Student > Master 15 11%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Student > Postgraduate 9 7%
Other 30 23%
Unknown 34 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 21%
Computer Science 13 10%
Arts and Humanities 12 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 5%
Engineering 7 5%
Other 32 24%
Unknown 32 24%
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 12 June 2023.
All research outputs
#2,095,305
of 24,972,914 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#401
of 2,864 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,716
of 334,706 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#10
of 59 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,972,914 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 2,864 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 334,706 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 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 59 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.