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Are Some Things Unrepresentable?

Overview of attention for article published in Theory, Culture & Society, January 2012
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Are Some Things Unrepresentable?
Published in
Theory, Culture & Society, January 2012
DOI 10.1177/0263276411423038
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Canada 2 1%
Australia 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 147 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 25%
Student > Master 23 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 9%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Other 31 19%
Unknown 30 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 57 36%
Arts and Humanities 49 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 3%
Computer Science 5 3%
Philosophy 4 3%
Other 8 5%
Unknown 31 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 03 November 2026.
All research outputs
#2,164,339
of 34,779,718 outputs
Outputs from Theory, Culture & Society
#107
of 1,571 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,273
of 306,802 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Theory, Culture & Society
#3
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,779,718 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,571 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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