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Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?

Overview of attention for article published in Public Understanding of Science, March 2016
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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 (85th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?
Published in
Public Understanding of Science, March 2016
DOI 10.1177/0963662516632453
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 63 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Researcher 9 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 15 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 35%
Environmental Science 6 9%
Psychology 4 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 5%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 15 23%
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 08 June 2023.
All research outputs
#3,824,717
of 32,447,906 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#361
of 1,212 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,408
of 328,802 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#5
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,447,906 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 1,212 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.