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Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology

Overview of attention for article published in Journal for the History of Astronomy, August 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 497)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology
Published in
Journal for the History of Astronomy, August 2024
DOI 10.1177/00218286241238732
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 18 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,596,313
of 34,602,740 outputs
Outputs from Journal for the History of Astronomy
#14
of 497 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,539
of 337,520 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal for the History of Astronomy
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,602,740 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 497 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 337,520 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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