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Industrial Research during the 1980s: Did the Rate of Return Fall?

Overview of attention for article published in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, January 1993
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Industrial Research during the 1980s: Did the Rate of Return Fall?
Published in
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, January 1993
DOI 10.2307/2534741
Authors

Bronwyn H. Hall, Edwin Mansfield, Adam B. Jaffe

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 44 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Switzerland 2 5%
United States 1 2%
Korea, Republic of 1 2%
Finland 1 2%
Colombia 1 2%
Unknown 38 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 18%
Student > Master 6 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 14%
Professor 3 7%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 11 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 11 25%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 23%
Social Sciences 5 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Physics and Astronomy 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 14 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 2014.
All research outputs
#3,345,737
of 29,615,412 outputs
Outputs from Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics
#18
of 60 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,214
of 73,868 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics
#2
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,615,412 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 60 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
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