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Success in books: predicting book sales before publication

Overview of attention for article published in EPJ Data Science, October 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#39 of 449)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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87 X users

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Title
Success in books: predicting book sales before publication
Published in
EPJ Data Science, October 2019
DOI 10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0208-6
Authors

Xindi Wang, Burcu Yucesoy, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Albert-László Barabási

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 98 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Researcher 7 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 41 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 11 11%
Arts and Humanities 9 9%
Social Sciences 7 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 46 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. 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 13 August 2023.
All research outputs
#596,435
of 25,552,933 outputs
Outputs from EPJ Data Science
#39
of 449 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,069
of 369,555 outputs
Outputs of similar age from EPJ Data Science
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,552,933 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 449 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 39.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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