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| Title |
A fool's errand
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature, March 2013
|
| DOI | 10.1038/495440a |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John Wilbanks |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 267 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 56 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 46 | 17% |
| Canada | 14 | 5% |
| Germany | 8 | 3% |
| Australia | 8 | 3% |
| Spain | 6 | 2% |
| France | 5 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 5 | 2% |
| South Africa | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 35 | 13% |
| Unknown | 81 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 185 | 69% |
| Scientists | 57 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 21 | 8% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 1% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 61 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 10% |
| Germany | 4 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| France | 2 | 3% |
| Italy | 2 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 35 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 33% |
| Librarian | 11 | 18% |
| Other | 9 | 15% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 10 | 16% |
| Unknown | 1 | 2% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 15 | 25% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 13% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 26% |
| Unknown | 3 | 5% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 271. 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 31 May 2018.
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#133,250
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#8,694
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#764
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#75
of 982 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,432,721 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 97,957 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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