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On the Concept of Force: How Understanding its History can Improve Physics Teaching

Overview of attention for article published in Science & Education, January 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)

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1 X user
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
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1 Q&A thread

Citations

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70 Mendeley
Title
On the Concept of Force: How Understanding its History can Improve Physics Teaching
Published in
Science & Education, January 2009
DOI 10.1007/s11191-008-9183-1
Authors

Ricardo Lopes Coelho

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 4%
Portugal 2 3%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 62 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 13%
Student > Master 9 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Researcher 5 7%
Other 18 26%
Unknown 14 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 33%
Physics and Astronomy 16 23%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Philosophy 3 4%
Mathematics 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 16 23%
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 20 March 2023.
All research outputs
#4,903,595
of 23,572,442 outputs
Outputs from Science & Education
#96
of 762 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,188
of 173,333 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science & Education
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,572,442 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 76th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 762 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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