Sharman, Rachael, Nunn, Patrick, Patrick D. Nunn, Rachael Sharman
Abstract
The findings of a new study suggest mistrust in climate science and uncritical faith in “alternative science” lead people to reject consensus science and generate alternative explanations.
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 165. 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 September 2026.
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Altmetric has tracked 34,557,610 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 213,862 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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