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The Historian and the Forger: Public Uses of the Past and Some Marks of Contemporary Historical Culture

Overview of attention for article published in Varia Historia, December 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 549)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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1 blog
twitter
5 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

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42 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Historian and the Forger: Public Uses of the Past and Some Marks of Contemporary Historical Culture
Published in
Varia Historia, December 2016
DOI 10.1590/0104-87752016000300009
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 19%
Student > Bachelor 7 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 1 2%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 16 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 14 33%
Social Sciences 9 21%
Philosophy 1 2%
Linguistics 1 2%
Unknown 17 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 23 May 2025.
All research outputs
#3,331,025
of 33,235,300 outputs
Outputs from Varia Historia
#8
of 549 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,662
of 443,260 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Varia Historia
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,235,300 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 549 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 2.2. 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 10 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