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The cathedral and the bazaar

Overview of attention for article published in Knowledge In Society, September 1999
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (70th percentile)

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1 policy source
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3 X users

Citations

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1491 Mendeley
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9 CiteULike
Title
The cathedral and the bazaar
Published in
Knowledge In Society, September 1999
DOI 10.1007/s12130-999-1026-0
Authors

Eric Raymond

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 59 4%
United Kingdom 29 2%
Germany 16 1%
Netherlands 11 <1%
Spain 9 <1%
Canada 9 <1%
Brazil 8 <1%
Sweden 8 <1%
South Africa 8 <1%
Other 68 5%
Unknown 1266 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 338 23%
Student > Master 283 19%
Researcher 175 12%
Student > Bachelor 133 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 105 7%
Other 351 24%
Unknown 106 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 502 34%
Social Sciences 230 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 161 11%
Arts and Humanities 85 6%
Engineering 84 6%
Other 288 19%
Unknown 141 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 24 November 2023.
All research outputs
#6,587,541
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Knowledge In Society
#224
of 558 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,437
of 36,332 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Knowledge In Society
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 558 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 36,332 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them