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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

Mentioned by

twitter
30 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
bluesky
28 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
2 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
In praise of inefficiency, failure and friendship: ten galvanizing reads for this festive season
Published by
Nature, December 2025
DOI 10.1038/d41586-025-04052-x
Pubmed ID
Authors

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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 100%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 1 50%
Social Sciences 1 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 31 January 2026.
All research outputs
#1,287,924
of 34,182,744 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#38,148
of 117,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,695
of 375,096 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#514
of 954 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,182,744 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 117,087 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 95.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% 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 375,096 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 954 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.