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Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, September 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
Published in
Nature, September 2012
DOI 10.1038/nature11467
Pubmed ID
Authors

David G. Rand, Joshua D. Greene, Martin A. Nowak

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 30 2%
United Kingdom 12 <1%
Germany 11 <1%
Netherlands 6 <1%
France 6 <1%
Italy 5 <1%
Brazil 5 <1%
Japan 5 <1%
Hungary 4 <1%
Other 32 2%
Unknown 1482 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 392 25%
Student > Master 224 14%
Student > Bachelor 206 13%
Researcher 203 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 82 5%
Other 294 18%
Unknown 197 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 630 39%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 157 10%
Social Sciences 116 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 88 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 77 5%
Other 270 17%
Unknown 260 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 701. 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 11 November 2023.
All research outputs
#30,029
of 25,729,842 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#2,770
of 98,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#98
of 189,678 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#18
of 1,037 outputs
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