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Three stories about the conduct of science: Past, future, and present

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cheminformatics, October 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (61st percentile)

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Title
Three stories about the conduct of science: Past, future, and present
Published in
Journal of Cheminformatics, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1758-2946-3-35
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Authors

Cameron Neylon

Abstract

In this piece I would like to tell a few stories; three stories to be precise. Firstly I want to explain where I am, where I've come from and what has led me to the views that I hold today. I find myself at an interesting point in my life and career at the same point as the research community is undergoing massive change. The second story is one of what the world might look like at some point in the future. What might we achieve? What might it look like? And what will be possible? Finally I want to ask the question of how we get there from here. What is the unifying idea or movement that actually has the potential to carry us forward in a positive way? At the end of this I'm going to ask you, the reader, to commit to something as part of the process of making that happen.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 7%
United States 2 7%
Sweden 1 4%
Indonesia 1 4%
Belarus 1 4%
Brazil 1 4%
Unknown 20 71%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 29%
Researcher 4 14%
Student > Master 4 14%
Other 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 3 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 8 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 29%
Engineering 3 11%
Social Sciences 2 7%
Chemistry 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 2 7%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 14 December 2011.
All research outputs
#2,428,015
of 23,341,064 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Cheminformatics
#244
of 862 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,719
of 137,820 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Cheminformatics
#9
of 21 outputs
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