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Identifying Pseudoscience: A Social Process Criterion

Overview of attention for article published in Journal for General Philosophy of Science, January 2018
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Title
Identifying Pseudoscience: A Social Process Criterion
Published in
Journal for General Philosophy of Science, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/s10838-017-9388-6
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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 14%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 13 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 5 12%
Psychology 4 10%
Social Sciences 4 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Other 11 26%
Unknown 13 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 29 November 2021.
All research outputs
#17,016,333
of 26,823,206 outputs
Outputs from Journal for General Philosophy of Science
#136
of 237 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#262,568
of 454,851 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal for General Philosophy of Science
#3
of 5 outputs
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