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Garfield’s demon and “surprising” or “unexpected” results in science

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, October 2008
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (64th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (56th percentile)

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Title
Garfield’s demon and “surprising” or “unexpected” results in science
Published in
Scientometrics, October 2008
DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1979-2
Authors

Michal Jasienski

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 7%
United Kingdom 1 4%
Brazil 1 4%
Mexico 1 4%
Croatia 1 4%
Unknown 21 78%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Librarian 3 11%
Other 3 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 11%
Other 7 26%
Unknown 2 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 41%
Computer Science 4 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Environmental Science 2 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 2 7%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 29 September 2017.
All research outputs
#7,285,335
of 22,985,065 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#1,276
of 2,690 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,385
of 89,743 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#7
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,985,065 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,690 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.