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The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data

Overview of attention for article published in Foundations of Science, March 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 312)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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1 news outlet
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42 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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256 Dimensions

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Title
The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data
Published in
Foundations of Science, March 2016
DOI 10.1007/s10699-016-9489-4
Authors

Cristian S. Calude, Giuseppe Longo

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 260 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 18%
Researcher 32 12%
Student > Master 32 12%
Student > Bachelor 16 6%
Professor 15 6%
Other 57 21%
Unknown 65 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 46 17%
Social Sciences 31 12%
Philosophy 12 5%
Engineering 12 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 4%
Other 75 28%
Unknown 80 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 April 2024.
All research outputs
#1,049,962
of 25,806,080 outputs
Outputs from Foundations of Science
#6
of 312 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,551
of 314,289 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Foundations of Science
#1
of 7 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 312 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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