↓ Skip to main content

BARKING UP THE WRONG BRANCH: Scientific Alternatives to the Current Model of Sociological Science

Overview of attention for article published in Annual Review of Sociology, August 2002
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (52nd percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
1 policy source
twitter
4 X users
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
314 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
BARKING UP THE WRONG BRANCH: Scientific Alternatives to the Current Model of Sociological Science
Published in
Annual Review of Sociology, August 2002
DOI 10.1146/annurev.soc.28.110601.141122
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 314 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 10 3%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 291 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 89 28%
Researcher 31 10%
Student > Master 27 9%
Professor 26 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 26 8%
Other 63 20%
Unknown 52 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 184 59%
Business, Management and Accounting 18 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 2%
Arts and Humanities 7 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 2%
Other 30 10%
Unknown 63 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 24 January 2025.
All research outputs
#6,737,118
of 32,237,790 outputs
Outputs from Annual Review of Sociology
#498
of 898 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,714
of 66,065 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annual Review of Sociology
#8
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,237,790 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 898 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 31.6. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 66,065 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 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its contemporaries.