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Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs

Overview of attention for article published in Work, Employment and Society, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 1,229)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
25 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
337 X users
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors

Citations

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27 Dimensions

Readers on

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103 Mendeley
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Title
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs
Published in
Work, Employment and Society, June 2021
DOI 10.1177/09500170211015067
Authors

Magdalena Soffia, Alex J Wood, Brendan Burchell

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 103 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 20%
Researcher 16 16%
Lecturer 6 6%
Professor 6 6%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Other 23 22%
Unknown 25 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 28%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 17%
Psychology 7 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 5%
Arts and Humanities 5 5%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 29 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 475. 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 February 2024.
All research outputs
#56,714
of 25,515,042 outputs
Outputs from Work, Employment and Society
#3
of 1,229 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,908
of 460,236 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Work, Employment and Society
#1
of 35 outputs
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