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Theory and practise of the g-index

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, June 2013
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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1 blog
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2 policy sources
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4 X users
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5 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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1 Connotea
Title
Theory and practise of the g-index
Published in
Scientometrics, June 2013
DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0144-7
Authors

Leo Egghe

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 12 1%
Germany 8 <1%
Spain 7 <1%
Netherlands 7 <1%
France 5 <1%
Canada 5 <1%
Brazil 5 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
Other 25 3%
Unknown 851 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 150 16%
Researcher 112 12%
Student > Master 97 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 60 6%
Student > Bachelor 57 6%
Other 266 29%
Unknown 191 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 143 15%
Social Sciences 129 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 91 10%
Engineering 58 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 4%
Other 250 27%
Unknown 223 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 19 November 2022.
All research outputs
#1,918,166
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#357
of 2,991 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,853
of 213,471 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#3
of 52 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,991 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 well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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