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Scientific research needs a radical restructuring: An exploitative system has made STEM unappealing to would-be academics

Overview of attention for article published in Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2024
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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 (90th percentile)

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Title
Scientific research needs a radical restructuring: An exploitative system has made STEM unappealing to would-be academics
Published in
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2024
DOI 10.7282/00000383
Authors

Beryl Lieff Benderly, Hal Salzman

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 15 January 2025.
All research outputs
#2,177,829
of 27,605,442 outputs
Outputs from Chronicle of Higher Education
#1
of 4 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,359
of 406,304 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Chronicle of Higher Education
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,605,442 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.6. This one scored the same or higher as 3 of them.
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 406,304 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1 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