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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Overview of attention for article published in Vikalpa, June 2019
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  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#34 of 214)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (69th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Published in
Vikalpa, June 2019
DOI 10.1177/0256090919853933
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Unknown 489 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 43 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 9%
Researcher 37 8%
Student > Bachelor 29 6%
Lecturer 17 3%
Other 68 14%
Unknown 255 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 55 11%
Computer Science 36 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 26 5%
Arts and Humanities 17 3%
Engineering 16 3%
Other 78 16%
Unknown 263 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#9,463,070
of 34,377,743 outputs
Outputs from Vikalpa
#34
of 214 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#120,532
of 397,715 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Vikalpa
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,377,743 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 214 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4 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