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To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, December 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
14 blogs
twitter
188 X users
facebook
8 Facebook pages
googleplus
5 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
5 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
203 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work
Published in
PLOS ONE, December 2014
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0110329
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 11 5%
Germany 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 186 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 18%
Researcher 29 14%
Student > Master 26 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 15 7%
Other 41 20%
Unknown 41 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 33 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 32 16%
Social Sciences 21 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 15 7%
Computer Science 10 5%
Other 43 21%
Unknown 49 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 248. 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 28 January 2026.
All research outputs
#189,925
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#2,735
of 224,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,656
of 421,919 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#36
of 4,038 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,768 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 421,919 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4,038 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.