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Simple Explanation of the No-Free-Lunch Theorem and Its Implications

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, December 2002
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 622)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source
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2 X users
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3 patents
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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Readers on

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316 Mendeley
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5 CiteULike
Title
Simple Explanation of the No-Free-Lunch Theorem and Its Implications
Published in
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, December 2002
DOI 10.1023/a:1021251113462
Authors

Y.C. Ho, D.L. Pepyne

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
Malaysia 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 301 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 75 24%
Student > Master 45 14%
Researcher 37 12%
Student > Bachelor 20 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 17 5%
Other 58 18%
Unknown 64 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 86 27%
Engineering 56 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 2%
Mathematics 7 2%
Other 58 18%
Unknown 81 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 10 June 2023.
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#1,565,716
of 24,942,536 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
#3
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#2,989
of 136,013 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
#2
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