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A Simulation of the Structure of Academic Science

Overview of attention for article published in Sociological Research Online, June 1997
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Title
A Simulation of the Structure of Academic Science
Published in
Sociological Research Online, June 1997
DOI 10.5153/sro.85
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 2 4%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Finland 1 2%
Colombia 1 2%
Argentina 1 2%
Unknown 50 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 20%
Professor 8 14%
Researcher 8 14%
Other 6 11%
Student > Master 5 9%
Other 14 25%
Unknown 4 7%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 13 23%
Computer Science 8 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 9%
Physics and Astronomy 3 5%
Engineering 3 5%
Other 19 34%
Unknown 5 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 05 August 2026.
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#9,099,910
of 26,802,760 outputs
Outputs from Sociological Research Online
#408
of 768 outputs
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#9,956
of 30,424 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociological Research Online
#1
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