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The SpaceX Effect

Overview of attention for article published in New Space, June 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 244)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
8 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
171 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The SpaceX Effect
Published in
New Space, June 2018
DOI 10.1089/space.2017.0032
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 171 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 29 17%
Student > Master 19 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 10%
Researcher 6 4%
Other 5 3%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 85 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 27 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 18 11%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Computer Science 4 2%
Other 21 12%
Unknown 91 53%
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 24 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,289,041
of 33,225,001 outputs
Outputs from New Space
#27
of 244 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,218
of 364,889 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Space
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,225,001 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 244 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 364,889 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them