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Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology

Overview of attention for article published in History of Science, August 2025
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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 (84th percentile)

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Title
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology
Published in
History of Science, August 2025
DOI 10.1177/00732753251344993
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 02 September 2026.
All research outputs
#5,970,438
of 34,267,958 outputs
Outputs from History of Science
#53
of 346 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,664
of 347,610 outputs
Outputs of similar age from History of Science
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,267,958 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 346 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 347,610 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 84% of its contemporaries.
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