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Do founders attribute their success to skill or luck?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, July 2023
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#24 of 209)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
twitter
1 X user
reddit
2 Redditors

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mendeley
40 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Do founders attribute their success to skill or luck?
Published in
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, July 2023
DOI 10.1186/s13731-023-00313-z
Authors

Benjamin J. Lough, Alyssa McFadden

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 4 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Professor 2 5%
Researcher 2 5%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 27 68%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 6 15%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Unspecified 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 26 65%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 16 September 2026.
All research outputs
#4,438,948
of 34,340,594 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
#24
of 209 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#61,091
of 399,384 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,340,594 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 209 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 399,384 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 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.