You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Improving the peer review of narrative literature reviews
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Research Integrity and Peer Review, September 2016
|
| DOI | 10.1186/s41073-016-0019-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jennifer A. Byrne |
| Abstract |
As the size of the published scientific literature has increased exponentially over the past 30 years, review articles play an increasingly important role in helping researchers to make sense of original research results. Literature reviews can be broadly classified as either "systematic" or "narrative". Narrative reviews may be broader in scope than systematic reviews, but have been criticised for lacking synthesis and rigour. The submission of more scientific manuscripts requires more researchers acting as peer reviewers, which requires adding greater numbers of new reviewers to the reviewing population over time. However, whereas there are many easily accessible guides for reviewers of primary research manuscripts, there are few similar resources to assist reviewers of narrative reviews. Here, I summarise why literature reviews are valued by their diverse readership and how peer reviewers with different levels of content expertise can improve the reliability and accessibility of narrative review articles. I then provide a number of recommendations for peer reviewers of narrative literature reviews, to improve the integrity of the scientific literature, while also ensuring that narrative review articles meet the needs of both expert and non-expert readers. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 39 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11 | 28% |
| Australia | 5 | 13% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 5% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 12 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 46% |
| Scientists | 14 | 36% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 243 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 243 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 36 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 12% |
| Researcher | 29 | 12% |
| Professor | 14 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 6% |
| Other | 43 | 18% |
| Unknown | 77 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 41 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 33 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 7% |
| Psychology | 12 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 46 | 19% |
| Unknown | 82 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 22 December 2020.
All research outputs
#1,209,350
of 23,509,982 outputs
Outputs from Research Integrity and Peer Review
#52
of 116 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,478
of 338,175 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research Integrity and Peer Review
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,509,982 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 116 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 69.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% 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 338,175 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 2 of them.