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What Is Digital Society? Reflections on the Aims and Purpose of Digital Sociology

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology, October 2019
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
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Title
What Is Digital Society? Reflections on the Aims and Purpose of Digital Sociology
Published in
Sociology, October 2019
DOI 10.1177/0038038519880114
Authors

Tom Redshaw

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Researcher 9 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Master 6 9%
Lecturer 5 7%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 27 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 35%
Computer Science 3 4%
Psychology 3 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 28 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 17 August 2020.
All research outputs
#1,921,965
of 25,306,238 outputs
Outputs from Sociology
#304
of 1,529 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,489
of 370,633 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology
#6
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,306,238 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,529 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 370,633 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% of its contemporaries.