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Social dilemmas among unequals

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, August 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
89 news outlets
twitter
318 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
3 Redditors
bluesky
3 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
323 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Social dilemmas among unequals
Published in
Nature, August 2019
DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1488-5
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 323 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 19%
Researcher 35 11%
Student > Master 34 11%
Student > Bachelor 25 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 6%
Other 49 15%
Unknown 100 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 43 13%
Social Sciences 24 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 4%
Physics and Astronomy 13 4%
Other 80 25%
Unknown 126 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 909. 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 30 January 2026.
All research outputs
#24,047
of 34,638,563 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#2,072
of 118,160 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#361
of 382,191 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#32
of 946 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,638,563 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 118,160 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 946 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.