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A new resource for identifying and assessing the impacts of research

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, June 2015
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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 (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (58th percentile)

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24 tweeters
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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11 Dimensions

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51 Mendeley
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Title
A new resource for identifying and assessing the impacts of research
Published in
BMC Medicine, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-015-0364-x
Pubmed ID
26108576
Authors

Saba Hinrichs, Jonathan Grant

Abstract

The impact case studies submitted by UK Higher Education Institutions to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2014 provide a rich resource of text describing impact beyond academia and across all disciplines. Using text mining techniques and qualitative assessment, the 6,679 non-redacted case studies submitted were analysed and the impact described was found to be multidisciplinary, multi-impactful, and multinational. By digging deeper into the data, the health gains from health research in terms of Quality Adjusted Life Years was also estimated. Similar analyses are possible using these case studies, but will require the data to be 're-purposed' from the original intention (i.e., for assessment purposes) for robust analysis.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Denmark 1 2%
South Africa 1 2%
Unknown 49 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 16%
Other 7 14%
Librarian 6 12%
Student > Master 4 8%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 8 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Computer Science 3 6%
Other 12 24%
Unknown 11 22%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 05 July 2015.
All research outputs
#2,220,433
of 23,740,970 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,461
of 3,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,788
of 265,236 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#30
of 70 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,740,970 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,593 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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