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Creative and Critical Thinking Through Academic Controversy

Overview of attention for article published in American Behavioral Scientist, September 1993
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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 (98th percentile)

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4 news outlets

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59 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Creative and Critical Thinking Through Academic Controversy
Published in
American Behavioral Scientist, September 1993
DOI 10.1177/0002764293037001005
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Russia 1 2%
Belgium 1 2%
Unknown 56 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 25%
Student > Master 7 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 8%
Lecturer 4 7%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 15 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 39%
Psychology 4 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Linguistics 3 5%
Engineering 2 3%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 15 25%
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 07 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,545,062
of 34,304,404 outputs
Outputs from American Behavioral Scientist
#178
of 1,949 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#346
of 28,849 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Behavioral Scientist
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,304,404 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 1,949 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 28,849 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 98% of its contemporaries.
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