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Brahmins as scientists and science as Brahmins’ calling: Caste in an Indian scientific research institute

Overview of attention for article published in Public Understanding of Science, February 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#19 of 1,066)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

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5 news outlets
twitter
158 tweeters

Readers on

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42 Mendeley
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Title
Brahmins as scientists and science as Brahmins’ calling: Caste in an Indian scientific research institute
Published in
Public Understanding of Science, February 2020
DOI 10.1177/0963662520903690
Pubmed ID
Authors

Renny Thomas

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Researcher 8 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 12%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Other 7 17%
Unknown 7 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 45%
Psychology 5 12%
Arts and Humanities 3 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 8 19%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 170. 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 27 May 2023.
All research outputs
#216,766
of 23,967,950 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#19
of 1,066 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,781
of 456,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#2
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,967,950 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 1,066 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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