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From Killer Machines to Doctrines and Swarms, or Why Ethics of Military Robotics Is not (Necessarily) About Robots

Overview of attention for article published in Knowledge In Society, April 2011
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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 (82nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Title
From Killer Machines to Doctrines and Swarms, or Why Ethics of Military Robotics Is not (Necessarily) About Robots
Published in
Knowledge In Society, April 2011
DOI 10.1007/s13347-011-0019-6
Authors

Mark Coeckelbergh

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 70 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 16%
Student > Bachelor 11 15%
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 5 7%
Other 18 25%
Unknown 10 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 25%
Computer Science 10 14%
Philosophy 8 11%
Engineering 8 11%
Arts and Humanities 4 5%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 12 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 23 December 2017.
All research outputs
#4,319,745
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Knowledge In Society
#169
of 549 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,129
of 120,796 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Knowledge In Society
#2
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,858 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 549 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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