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Would firm generators facilitate or deter variable renewable energy in a carbon-free electricity system?

Overview of attention for article published in Applied Energy, December 2020
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Would firm generators facilitate or deter variable renewable energy in a carbon-free electricity system?
Published in
Applied Energy, December 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115789
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Student > Master 4 6%
Lecturer 3 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 30 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Energy 7 11%
Engineering 5 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 36 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. 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 10 March 2025.
All research outputs
#1,131,715
of 34,342,227 outputs
Outputs from Applied Energy
#207
of 7,795 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,706
of 569,122 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Applied Energy
#6
of 231 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,342,227 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,795 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 569,122 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 231 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 97% of its contemporaries.