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International ranking systems for universities and institutions: a critical appraisal

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, October 2007
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
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3 blogs
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3 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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95 Dimensions

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139 Mendeley
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Title
International ranking systems for universities and institutions: a critical appraisal
Published in
BMC Medicine, October 2007
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-5-30
Pubmed ID
Authors

John PA Ioannidis, Nikolaos A Patsopoulos, Fotini K Kavvoura, Athina Tatsioni, Evangelos Evangelou, Ioanna Kouri, Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis, George Liberopoulos

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Other 4 3%
Unknown 124 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Student > Master 14 10%
Professor 13 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 9%
Other 54 39%
Unknown 10 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 39 28%
Computer Science 20 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 16 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 6%
Other 27 19%
Unknown 18 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 August 2023.
All research outputs
#1,630,440
of 24,288,381 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,140
of 3,730 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,318
of 78,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#1
of 6 outputs
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