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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
The virtues of epistemic conservatism
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Synthese, August 2007
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-007-9222-5 |
| Authors |
Kevin McCain |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 15 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 14 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 27% |
| Professor | 3 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 13% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 7% |
| Other | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 10 | 67% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 13% |
| Psychology | 1 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 1 | 7% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 18 April 2018.
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#7,554,098
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Outputs from Synthese
#831
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#24,584
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Outputs of similar age from Synthese
#5
of 10 outputs
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