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Was There Really a Popular Science “Boom”?

Overview of attention for article published in Science, Technology, & Human Values, April 1987
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#23 of 1,003)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
33 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Was There Really a Popular Science “Boom”?
Published in
Science, Technology, & Human Values, April 1987
DOI 10.1177/016224398701200204
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 33 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Portugal 1 3%
Malaysia 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Colombia 1 3%
Argentina 1 3%
Unknown 28 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 27%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 18%
Student > Master 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Lecturer 2 6%
Other 7 21%
Unknown 4 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 36%
Arts and Humanities 5 15%
Linguistics 3 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 6%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 4 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. 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 21 September 2026.
All research outputs
#865,067
of 34,377,743 outputs
Outputs from Science, Technology, & Human Values
#23
of 1,003 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#72
of 17,137 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science, Technology, & Human Values
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,377,743 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 1,003 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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