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A close encounter with ghost-writers: an initial exploration study on background, strategies and attitudes of independent essay providers

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal for Educational Integrity, July 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 123)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)

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1 blog
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25 X users
facebook
5 Facebook pages
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2 Google+ users

Citations

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Title
A close encounter with ghost-writers: an initial exploration study on background, strategies and attitudes of independent essay providers
Published in
International Journal for Educational Integrity, July 2016
DOI 10.1007/s40979-016-0007-9
Authors

Shiva Sivasubramaniam, Kalliopi Kostelidou, Sharavan Ramachandran

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 52 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Librarian 3 6%
Student > Master 3 6%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Other 11 21%
Unknown 17 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 19%
Arts and Humanities 4 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 6%
Linguistics 2 4%
Other 11 21%
Unknown 18 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 16 December 2021.
All research outputs
#1,233,125
of 22,763,032 outputs
Outputs from International Journal for Educational Integrity
#13
of 123 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,959
of 351,639 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal for Educational Integrity
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,763,032 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 123 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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