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Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence

Overview of attention for article published in Social Studies of Science, June 1999
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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 (85th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Do Artefacts Have Ambivalence
Published in
Social Studies of Science, June 1999
DOI 10.1177/030631299029003005
Authors

Steve Woolgar, Geoff Cooper

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 10 4%
United Kingdom 4 2%
Germany 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 235 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 78 30%
Student > Master 30 12%
Researcher 29 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 23 9%
Lecturer 16 6%
Other 57 22%
Unknown 25 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 112 43%
Arts and Humanities 34 13%
Computer Science 30 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 19 7%
Design 8 3%
Other 24 9%
Unknown 31 12%
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 25 August 2026.
All research outputs
#4,953,995
of 29,846,098 outputs
Outputs from Social Studies of Science
#344
of 1,038 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,247
of 42,992 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Studies of Science
#4
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,846,098 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,038 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% 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 42,992 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 85% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.