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Why robots should not be treated like animals

Overview of attention for article published in Ethics and Information Technology, September 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#25 of 450)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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7 news outlets
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17 X users

Citations

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Readers on

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56 Mendeley
Title
Why robots should not be treated like animals
Published in
Ethics and Information Technology, September 2018
DOI 10.1007/s10676-018-9481-5
Authors

Deborah G. Johnson, Mario Verdicchio

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 18%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Researcher 4 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 20 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 10 18%
Social Sciences 7 13%
Philosophy 6 11%
Psychology 4 7%
Arts and Humanities 3 5%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 21 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 14 March 2022.
All research outputs
#674,017
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Ethics and Information Technology
#25
of 450 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,313
of 354,583 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ethics and Information Technology
#1
of 8 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.
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