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Social research 2.0: virtual snowball sampling method using Facebook

Overview of attention for article published in Internet Research, January 2012
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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)

Mentioned by

twitter
2 tweeters
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Citations

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645 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1271 Mendeley
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Title
Social research 2.0: virtual snowball sampling method using Facebook
Published in
Internet Research, January 2012
DOI 10.1108/10662241211199960
Authors

Fabiola Baltar, Ignasi Brunet

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,271 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 6 <1%
Malaysia 5 <1%
United States 5 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 1239 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 350 28%
Student > Master 224 18%
Student > Bachelor 110 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 87 7%
Researcher 73 6%
Other 214 17%
Unknown 213 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 302 24%
Social Sciences 285 22%
Psychology 92 7%
Computer Science 62 5%
Arts and Humanities 42 3%
Other 218 17%
Unknown 270 21%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 22 March 2023.
All research outputs
#5,728,478
of 23,445,423 outputs
Outputs from Internet Research
#58
of 426 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,656
of 249,475 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Internet Research
#1
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Altmetric has tracked 23,445,423 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 426 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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