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To Explain or to Predict?

Overview of attention for article published in Statistical Science, August 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 785)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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Article details
Title
To Explain or to Predict?
Published in
Statistical Science, August 2010
DOI 10.1214/10-sts330
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 54 1%
United Kingdom 20 <1%
Brazil 17 <1%
Germany 16 <1%
France 13 <1%
Canada 11 <1%
Australia 9 <1%
Spain 6 <1%
Austria 4 <1%
Other 49 <1%
Unknown 5079 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1165 22%
Researcher 683 13%
Student > Master 597 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 301 6%
Student > Bachelor 278 5%
Other 854 16%
Unknown 1400 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 450 9%
Computer Science 420 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 396 8%
Social Sciences 382 7%
Engineering 299 6%
Other 1678 32%
Unknown 1653 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 266. 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.
All research outputs
#172,544
of 34,362,729 outputs
Outputs from Statistical Science
#3
of 785 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#348
of 150,194 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Statistical Science
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,362,729 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 785 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them