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In Praise of Carbon, In Praise of Science

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Business and Technical Communication, July 2007
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 238)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)

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1 blog
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1 Bluesky user

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Article details
Title
In Praise of Carbon, In Praise of Science
Published in
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, July 2007
DOI 10.1177/1050651907300468
Authors

Christian F. Casper

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 18%
Unknown 9 82%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 27%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 27%
Lecturer 1 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 9%
Student > Bachelor 1 9%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 4 36%
Social Sciences 3 27%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 9%
Chemistry 1 9%
Unknown 2 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 05 October 2026.
All research outputs
#6,137,118
of 34,526,284 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Business and Technical Communication
#26
of 238 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,828
of 116,636 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Business and Technical Communication
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,526,284 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 238 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 116,636 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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