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To Explain or To Predict?

Overview of attention for article published in SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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1 policy source
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6 X users
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3 Q&A threads

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285 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
To Explain or To Predict?
Published in
SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009
DOI 10.2139/ssrn.1351252
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 281 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 65 23%
Student > Master 50 18%
Researcher 46 16%
Student > Bachelor 15 5%
Professor 14 5%
Other 44 15%
Unknown 51 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 27 9%
Computer Science 25 9%
Social Sciences 22 8%
Environmental Science 16 6%
Other 94 33%
Unknown 68 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 21 October 2025.
All research outputs
#3,016,296
of 34,627,816 outputs
Outputs from SSRN Electronic Journal
#10,832
of 78,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,727
of 250,531 outputs
Outputs of similar age from SSRN Electronic Journal
#44
of 426 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,627,816 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 78,252 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 250,531 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 426 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 91% of its contemporaries.