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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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Mentioned by

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2 X users
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Citations

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763 Dimensions

Readers on

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1393 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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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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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 1361 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 364 26%
Student > Master 229 16%
Student > Bachelor 114 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 94 7%
Researcher 82 6%
Other 235 17%
Unknown 275 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 319 23%
Social Sciences 294 21%
Psychology 98 7%
Computer Science 61 4%
Arts and Humanities 46 3%
Other 240 17%
Unknown 335 24%
Attention Score in Context

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 07 May 2023.
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#6,374,015
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Internet Research
#74
of 516 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,452
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Outputs of similar age from Internet Research
#1
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Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 516 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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