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Ostriches and Change

Overview of attention for article published in Current Sociology, May 2008
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Article details
Title
Ostriches and Change
Published in
Current Sociology, May 2008
DOI 10.1177/0011392107088239
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Canada 3 7%
Portugal 1 2%
India 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
Unknown 36 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 26%
Researcher 10 23%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 9%
Professor 3 7%
Other 2 5%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 5 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 56%
Environmental Science 5 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 8 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 01 January 2010.
All research outputs
#7,448,111
of 22,770,070 outputs
Outputs from Current Sociology
#444
of 876 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,691
of 79,363 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Sociology
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,770,070 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 876 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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