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The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, July 2007
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 2,317)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
12 X users
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
1236 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1077 Mendeley
citeulike
7 CiteULike
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Title
The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, July 2007
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-7-30
Pubmed ID
Authors

Rob McCarney, James Warner, Steve Iliffe, Robbert van Haselen, Mark Griffin, Peter Fisher

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 12 1%
United States 9 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Italy 3 <1%
Sweden 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Austria 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 11 1%
Unknown 1029 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 191 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 179 17%
Student > Bachelor 143 13%
Researcher 126 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 59 5%
Other 192 18%
Unknown 187 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 283 26%
Psychology 95 9%
Social Sciences 70 6%
Computer Science 62 6%
Engineering 59 5%
Other 267 25%
Unknown 241 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. 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 24 April 2024.
All research outputs
#589,569
of 25,774,185 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#44
of 2,317 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#872
of 79,136 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,774,185 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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