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Blockchain humanitarianism and crypto-colonialism

Overview of attention for article published in Patterns, December 2021
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
57 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors
bluesky
3 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
152 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Blockchain humanitarianism and crypto-colonialism
Published in
Patterns, December 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100422
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 152 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 9%
Lecturer 12 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 6%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 18 12%
Unknown 85 56%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 16 11%
Computer Science 13 9%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 84 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. 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 14 January 2026.
All research outputs
#697,072
of 34,348,536 outputs
Outputs from Patterns
#80
of 850 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,333
of 562,987 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Patterns
#2
of 41 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,348,536 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 850 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 562,987 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 41 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 95% of its contemporaries.