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Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense

Overview of attention for article published in Social Studies of Science, June 2022
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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 (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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3 news outlets
twitter
16 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
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2 Bluesky users

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91 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense
Published in
Social Studies of Science, June 2022
DOI 10.1177/03063127221104938
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 91 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Master 7 8%
Professor 5 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 3%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 50 55%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 26%
Arts and Humanities 6 7%
Philosophy 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 50 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. 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 28 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,454,988
of 34,425,846 outputs
Outputs from Social Studies of Science
#62
of 1,061 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,497
of 470,688 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Studies of Science
#3
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,425,846 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,061 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 470,688 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 7 of them.