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Cradle or crucible

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Social Archaeology, June 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Cradle or crucible
Published in
Journal of Social Archaeology, June 2008
DOI 10.1177/1469605308089965
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Bulgaria 1 2%
Unknown 52 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 33%
Researcher 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Other 3 6%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 12 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 43%
Arts and Humanities 14 26%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 4%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 11 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 11 October 2026.
All research outputs
#7,245,018
of 34,563,371 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Social Archaeology
#52
of 198 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,073
of 139,600 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Social Archaeology
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,563,371 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 198 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% 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 139,600 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them