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A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, October 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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10 news outlets
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19 X users

Citations

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Title
A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays
Published in
Scientific Reports, October 2023
DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-45644-9
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Authors

Steffen Herbold, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Ute Heuer, Zlata Kikteva, Alexander Trautsch

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 116 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Researcher 9 8%
Lecturer 7 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 4%
Student > Master 5 4%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 62 53%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 9%
Computer Science 11 9%
Linguistics 5 4%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 62 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 94. 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 02 March 2024.
All research outputs
#458,812
of 25,715,849 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#5,119
of 142,599 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,121
of 364,174 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#108
of 3,894 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,715,849 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 142,599 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 3,894 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.