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The other question: can and should robots have rights?

Overview of attention for article published in Ethics and Information Technology, October 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 450)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
68 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

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146 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
176 Mendeley
Title
The other question: can and should robots have rights?
Published in
Ethics and Information Technology, October 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10676-017-9442-4
Authors

David J. Gunkel

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 176 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 18%
Student > Bachelor 27 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 12%
Researcher 16 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 5%
Other 31 18%
Unknown 41 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 29 16%
Computer Science 24 14%
Social Sciences 23 13%
Engineering 13 7%
Psychology 9 5%
Other 29 16%
Unknown 49 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 27 March 2023.
All research outputs
#694,634
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Ethics and Information Technology
#27
of 450 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,437
of 339,942 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ethics and Information Technology
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 450 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 339,942 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 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