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Is science for atheists? Perceived threat to religious cultural authority explains U.S. Christians’ distrust in secularized science

Overview of attention for article published in Public Understanding of Science, September 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#47 of 1,087)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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8 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
16 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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25 Dimensions

Readers on

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40 Mendeley
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Title
Is science for atheists? Perceived threat to religious cultural authority explains U.S. Christians’ distrust in secularized science
Published in
Public Understanding of Science, September 2019
DOI 10.1177/0963662519871881
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ain Simpson, Kimberly Rios

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 10%
Other 2 5%
Researcher 2 5%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 20 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 15%
Psychology 5 13%
Philosophy 3 8%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 20 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. 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 October 2022.
All research outputs
#502,747
of 24,942,536 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#47
of 1,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,738
of 346,525 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#4
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,942,536 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 1,087 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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