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What makes interdisciplinarity difficult? Some consequences of domain specificity in interdisciplinary practice

Overview of attention for article published in Synthese, October 2016
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
15 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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157 Dimensions

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221 Mendeley
Title
What makes interdisciplinarity difficult? Some consequences of domain specificity in interdisciplinary practice
Published in
Synthese, October 2016
DOI 10.1007/s11229-016-1236-4
Authors

Miles MacLeod

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 219 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 22%
Researcher 37 17%
Student > Bachelor 20 9%
Student > Master 19 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 7%
Other 45 20%
Unknown 36 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 44 20%
Environmental Science 17 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 6%
Arts and Humanities 10 5%
Psychology 9 4%
Other 80 36%
Unknown 47 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 12 March 2023.
All research outputs
#1,291,553
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Synthese
#68
of 2,827 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,196
of 332,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Synthese
#5
of 50 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,827 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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