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Should We Lie to Extraterrestrials? A Critique of the Voyager Golden Records

Overview of attention for article published in Space Policy, August 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#49 of 293)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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1 news outlet
twitter
3 tweeters

Citations

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5 Dimensions

Readers on

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10 Mendeley

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Title
Should We Lie to Extraterrestrials? A Critique of the Voyager Golden Records
Published in
Space Policy, August 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.spacepol.2021.101440
Authors

John W. Traphagan

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 10%
Student > Postgraduate 1 10%
Student > Master 1 10%
Unknown 7 70%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 1 10%
Social Sciences 1 10%
Engineering 1 10%
Unknown 7 70%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 05 September 2022.
All research outputs
#2,053,789
of 23,269,984 outputs
Outputs from Space Policy
#49
of 293 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,894
of 433,140 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Space Policy
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,269,984 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 293 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% 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 433,140 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 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.

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