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Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Scientific method: Statistical errors
|
|---|---|
| Published by |
Nature, February 2014
|
| DOI | 10.1038/506150a |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Regina Nuzzo |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1408 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 739 | 9% |
| Canada | 260 | 3% |
| Spain | 157 | 2% |
| Australia | 138 | 2% |
| Germany | 113 | 1% |
| France | 97 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 89 | 1% |
| Japan | 66 | <1% |
| Other | 968 | 12% |
| Unknown | 4089 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5078 | 63% |
| Scientists | 2342 | 29% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 442 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 247 | 3% |
| Unknown | 15 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,807 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 44 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 22 | 1% |
| Brazil | 14 | <1% |
| Germany | 13 | <1% |
| Japan | 10 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 8 | <1% |
| Sweden | 8 | <1% |
| France | 6 | <1% |
| Spain | 6 | <1% |
| Other | 63 | 3% |
| Unknown | 1613 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 443 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 360 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 167 | 9% |
| Other | 120 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 103 | 6% |
| Other | 411 | 23% |
| Unknown | 203 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 356 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 221 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 121 | 7% |
| Psychology | 100 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 77 | 4% |
| Other | 624 | 35% |
| Unknown | 308 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6223. 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 15 July 2024.
All research outputs
#551
of 26,374,559 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#42
of 100,402 outputs
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#1
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Outputs of similar age from Nature
#1
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Altmetric has tracked 26,374,559 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 100,402 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 103.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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