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What Paul McCartney’s ‘The Lyrics’ can teach us about harnessing our creativity

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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Title
What Paul McCartney’s ‘The Lyrics’ can teach us about harnessing our creativity
Published by
The Conversation, November 2021
DOI 10.64628/aai.cytvrpyem
Authors

Wasserman, Edward, Edward Wasserman

Abstract

The ‘Eureka!’ moment is a myth – an altogether naïve and fanciful account of innovation.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 562. 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 25 November 2023.
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#53,656
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#3,202
of 211,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,376
of 474,912 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#70
of 979 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 211,841 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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