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The Society of Algorithms

Overview of attention for article published in Annual Review of Sociology, May 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 799)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
165 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

dimensions_citation
156 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
326 Mendeley
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Title
The Society of Algorithms
Published in
Annual Review of Sociology, May 2021
DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-090820-020800
Authors

Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 326 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 15%
Researcher 37 11%
Student > Master 23 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 7%
Student > Bachelor 20 6%
Other 69 21%
Unknown 105 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 115 35%
Business, Management and Accounting 25 8%
Computer Science 14 4%
Arts and Humanities 12 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 3%
Other 37 11%
Unknown 114 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 142. 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 20 October 2023.
All research outputs
#291,920
of 25,500,206 outputs
Outputs from Annual Review of Sociology
#43
of 799 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,367
of 460,251 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annual Review of Sociology
#1
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,500,206 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 799 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 460,251 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.