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On the essential role of organized skepticism in science’s “internal and lawful autonomy” (Eigengesetzlichkeit)

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Classical Sociology, March 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 229)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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4 X users
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1 Wikipedia page

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Article details
Title
On the essential role of organized skepticism in science’s “internal and lawful autonomy” (Eigengesetzlichkeit)
Published in
Journal of Classical Sociology, March 2021
DOI 10.1177/1468795x211000247
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 31 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Other 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Professor 2 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 6%
Other 6 19%
Unknown 14 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 23%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 15 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 02 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,734,592
of 34,531,218 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Classical Sociology
#6
of 229 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,407
of 481,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Classical Sociology
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,531,218 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 229 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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