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How do policy evaluators understand complexity?

Overview of attention for article published in Evaluation, July 2020
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (77th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
How do policy evaluators understand complexity?
Published in
Evaluation, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/1356389020930053
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 82 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 18%
Researcher 15 18%
Student > Master 8 10%
Other 7 9%
Lecturer 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 27 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 34%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 7%
Environmental Science 5 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 28 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 17 December 2020.
All research outputs
#5,563,873
of 32,780,952 outputs
Outputs from Evaluation
#116
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Outputs of similar age
#102,749
of 449,230 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evaluation
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,780,952 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 510 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% 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 449,230 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 77% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 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