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Information production by scientists and the history of science: typological study of personal archives

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2015
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Title
Information production by scientists and the history of science: typological study of personal archives
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, September 2015
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702015000300011
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Authors

Maria Celina Soares de Mello e Silva, Márcia Cristina Duarte Trancoso

Abstract

This article addresses the study of document typology in the personal archives of scientists and its importance in the history of science studies and for the archivist's work. A brief history is presented of diplomatic to typological information, emphasizing that identifying document production activity as essential for its classification. The article illustrates personal archive characteristics as regards the diversity of documental types and, in particular, those belonging to physicists. Furthermore, it presents five examples of documental types found in the archives of physicists as examples of research in progress. It also highlights the elaboration of a glossary of different documental kinds and types found in the private archives of Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 25%
Other 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 1 25%
Social Sciences 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 January 2019.
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#6,495,301
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#581
of 1,629 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,739
of 276,785 outputs
Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#16
of 30 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,629 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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