↓ Skip to main content

A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept: relevance and usefulness for policy science and practice

Overview of attention for article published in Policy and Society, May 2019
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
2 policy sources
twitter
20 X users

Citations

dimensions_citation
106 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
350 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept: relevance and usefulness for policy science and practice
Published in
Policy and Society, May 2019
DOI 10.1080/14494035.2019.1617971
Authors

Catrien J A M Termeer, Art Dewulf, Robbert Biesbroek

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 20 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 350 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 350 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 18%
Student > Master 45 13%
Researcher 35 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 7%
Student > Bachelor 15 4%
Other 64 18%
Unknown 105 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 82 23%
Environmental Science 36 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 7%
Arts and Humanities 10 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 3%
Other 69 20%
Unknown 121 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 26 December 2022.
All research outputs
#1,958,809
of 25,476,463 outputs
Outputs from Policy and Society
#56
of 365 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,168
of 365,670 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Policy and Society
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,476,463 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 365 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 365,670 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 9 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