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An Inferential Conception of the Application of Mathematics

Overview of attention for article published in Nous, January 2011
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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 (83rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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1 blog
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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67 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
An Inferential Conception of the Application of Mathematics
Published in
Nous, January 2011
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00772.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
United States 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 63 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 30%
Researcher 8 12%
Student > Master 6 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 33 49%
Social Sciences 6 9%
Computer Science 4 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 11 16%
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 12 June 2025.
All research outputs
#6,093,122
of 34,360,889 outputs
Outputs from Nous
#61
of 553 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,303
of 255,813 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nous
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,889 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 553 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 255,813 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 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.