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Citizens as Scientists

Overview of attention for article published in Science Communication, July 2016
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Article details
Title
Citizens as Scientists
Published in
Science Communication, July 2016
DOI 10.1177/1075547016656191
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 137 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 17%
Student > Master 18 13%
Other 8 6%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Other 24 17%
Unknown 34 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 20%
Environmental Science 28 20%
Social Sciences 21 15%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 10 7%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 36 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 August 2016.
All research outputs
#10,201,842
of 31,713,351 outputs
Outputs from Science Communication
#328
of 588 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#110,393
of 325,251 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science Communication
#4
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,713,351 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 588 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.3. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 325,251 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.