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Typographic style is more than cosmetic

Overview of attention for article published in Communications of the ACM, May 1990
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Typographic style is more than cosmetic
Published in
Communications of the ACM, May 1990
DOI 10.1145/78607.78611
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Unknown 104 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 30%
Student > Master 15 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 12%
Researcher 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 10 9%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 24 22%
Physics and Astronomy 20 19%
Engineering 11 10%
Mathematics 9 8%
Chemistry 4 4%
Other 26 24%
Unknown 14 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 29 April 2018.
All research outputs
#3,939,941
of 32,444,292 outputs
Outputs from Communications of the ACM
#609
of 4,798 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,557
of 22,013 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communications of the ACM
#3
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,444,292 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,798 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 22,013 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.