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The fantasy of carbon offsetting

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Politics, February 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 960)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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22 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
98 X users

Citations

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37 Dimensions

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175 Mendeley
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Title
The fantasy of carbon offsetting
Published in
Environmental Politics, February 2021
DOI 10.1080/09644016.2021.1877063
Authors

Robert Watt

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 175 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 13%
Student > Bachelor 21 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 10%
Researcher 17 10%
Student > Postgraduate 6 3%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 72 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 30 17%
Social Sciences 18 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Other 25 14%
Unknown 80 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 227. 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 November 2023.
All research outputs
#169,488
of 25,582,611 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Politics
#8
of 960 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,158
of 532,893 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Politics
#3
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,582,611 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 960 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 532,893 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.