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The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics

Overview of attention for article published in EPJ Data Science, January 2014
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About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#16 of 451)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
twitter
84 X users
facebook
6 Facebook pages
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
2 Redditors

Citations

dimensions_citation
54 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
93 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
Title
The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics
Published in
EPJ Data Science, January 2014
DOI 10.1140/epjds20
Authors

Anna Samoilenko, Taha Yasseri

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 84 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 93 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 4%
United Kingdom 3 3%
Japan 2 2%
Switzerland 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Ghana 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Taiwan 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 76 82%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 24%
Researcher 13 14%
Librarian 10 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 10%
Student > Master 9 10%
Other 24 26%
Unknown 6 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 31%
Computer Science 24 26%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 8%
Arts and Humanities 5 5%
Psychology 4 4%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 11 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 148. 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 08 November 2023.
All research outputs
#280,398
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from EPJ Data Science
#16
of 451 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,599
of 321,852 outputs
Outputs of similar age from EPJ Data Science
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,584,565 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 451 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 39.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 321,852 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.