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Solving wigner’s mystery: The reasonable (though perhaps limited) effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences

Overview of attention for article published in The Mathematical Intelligencer, November 2008
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Title
Solving wigner’s mystery: The reasonable (though perhaps limited) effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences
Published in
The Mathematical Intelligencer, November 2008
DOI 10.1007/bf02985373
Authors

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 8%
India 2 8%
United Kingdom 1 4%
Australia 1 4%
Unknown 20 77%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 27%
Other 5 19%
Student > Bachelor 3 12%
Lecturer 2 8%
Student > Master 2 8%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Mathematics 4 15%
Philosophy 3 12%
Social Sciences 3 12%
Computer Science 2 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 8%
Other 8 31%
Unknown 4 15%
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 17 October 2023.
All research outputs
#7,999,160
of 25,476,463 outputs
Outputs from The Mathematical Intelligencer
#241
of 769 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,933
of 100,696 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Mathematical Intelligencer
#25
of 75 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,476,463 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 769 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its peers.
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