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Risks and Rewards of an Interdisciplinary Research Path

Overview of attention for article published in Science, December 2004
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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 (87th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (52nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Risks and Rewards of an Interdisciplinary Research Path
Published in
Science, December 2004
DOI 10.1126/science.1103628
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 18 6%
United Kingdom 4 1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 296 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 94 29%
Researcher 55 17%
Student > Master 24 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 21 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 6%
Other 66 20%
Unknown 46 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 70 21%
Environmental Science 33 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 20 6%
Computer Science 15 5%
Other 95 29%
Unknown 71 22%
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 29 May 2018.
All research outputs
#6,282,761
of 29,996,635 outputs
Outputs from Science
#46,174
of 88,927 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,690
of 161,253 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#156
of 330 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,996,635 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 88,927 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.9. This one is in the 47th percentile – i.e., 47% 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 161,253 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 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 330 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.