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Philip Kitcher, Science in a Democratic Society

Overview of attention for article published in Minerva, June 2013
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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 (80th percentile)

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1 news outlet

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Article details
Title
Philip Kitcher, Science in a Democratic Society
Published in
Minerva, June 2013
DOI 10.1007/s11024-013-9233-y
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
India 1 3%
Unknown 34 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 8%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 8 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 9 25%
Social Sciences 8 22%
Psychology 3 8%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 10 28%
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 23 May 2016.
All research outputs
#4,156,299
of 22,716,996 outputs
Outputs from Minerva
#96
of 393 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,119
of 198,001 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Minerva
#6
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,716,996 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 393 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% 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 198,001 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 80% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.