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Design and development of a gossamer sail system for deorbiting in low earth orbit

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Astronautica, October 2014
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Article details
Title
Design and development of a gossamer sail system for deorbiting in low earth orbit
Published in
Acta Astronautica, October 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.06.018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Japan 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 90 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 23%
Student > Master 18 20%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Researcher 5 5%
Other 4 4%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 30 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 44 48%
Physics and Astronomy 5 5%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Psychology 2 2%
Design 2 2%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 31 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 June 2025.
All research outputs
#10,515,913
of 31,959,560 outputs
Outputs from Acta Astronautica
#1,072
of 2,811 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#93,101
of 283,935 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Acta Astronautica
#9
of 45 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,959,560 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,811 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% 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 283,935 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 45 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.