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The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, May 2004
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Title
The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, May 2004
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-4-14
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Authors

Andy R Weale, Mick Bailey, Paul A Lear

Abstract

Current methods of measuring the quality of journals assume that citations of articles within journals are normally distributed. Furthermore using journal impact factors to measure the quality of individual articles is flawed if citations are not uniformly spread between articles. The aim of this study was to assess the distribution of citations to articles and use the level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality. This ranking method is compared with the impact factor, as calculated by ISI(R).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 7%
Germany 3 2%
Spain 3 2%
Australia 3 2%
Netherlands 2 1%
Belgium 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Brazil 2 1%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 105 71%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 15%
Student > Master 16 11%
Professor 16 11%
Librarian 14 10%
Other 44 30%
Unknown 8 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 31 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 17%
Social Sciences 24 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 10%
Psychology 7 5%
Other 32 22%
Unknown 13 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 11 October 2021.
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#1,813,002
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Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#236
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#2,338
of 60,383 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#2
of 6 outputs
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