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The Missing Skull – Professor Lundborg and the mismeasure of grandma

Overview of attention for article published in Endeavour, March 2016
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Title
The Missing Skull – Professor Lundborg and the mismeasure of grandma
Published in
Endeavour, March 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.03.001
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Authors

Henrik Kylin

Abstract

What is science? Or, more pertinently, what is good science? This question is central for all practitioners of science and one of the most important to convey to our students. For those of us working in interdisciplinary settings - my own department covers everything from humanities to political and natural science - the question becomes even more complicated when traditions from different disciplines collide. For me personally, whenever I think too highly of my own research and risk deviating into bad scientific practices, I think of my paternal grandmother, Elsa. Although long dead, she brings me back into the fold of good science - or so I hope - by urging me to take another turn at critically evaluating how I perform research and to keep my arrogance in check.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 33%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 17%
Professor 1 17%
Unknown 2 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 17%
Environmental Science 1 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 17%
Unknown 2 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 11 February 2022.
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#8,262,445
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Endeavour
#172
of 468 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#109,889
of 314,938 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Endeavour
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 468 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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