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Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations?

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, April 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#29 of 2,980)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
5 blogs
twitter
149 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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68 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
189 Mendeley
Title
Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations?
Published in
Scientometrics, April 2017
DOI 10.1007/s11192-017-2396-9
Authors

Enrique Orduna-Malea, Alberto Martín-Martín, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Ukraine 1 <1%
Unknown 181 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 49 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 14%
Researcher 24 13%
Student > Master 19 10%
Other 13 7%
Other 38 20%
Unknown 20 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 66 35%
Computer Science 28 15%
Arts and Humanities 11 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Other 36 19%
Unknown 30 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 123. 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 25 April 2022.
All research outputs
#349,314
of 25,888,937 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#29
of 2,980 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,178
of 328,200 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#2
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,888,937 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 2,980 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 51 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.