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Academics can help shape Wikipedia

Overview of attention for article published in Science, August 2017
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About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (69th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
103 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
4 Google+ users

Citations

dimensions_citation
14 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
17 Mendeley
Title
Academics can help shape Wikipedia
Published in
Science, August 2017
DOI 10.1126/science.aao0462
Pubmed ID
Authors

Thomas Shafee, Daniel Mietchen, Andrew I Su

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 29%
Researcher 4 24%
Other 2 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 12%
Professor 1 6%
Other 3 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 24%
Social Sciences 4 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Computer Science 1 6%
Other 3 18%
Unknown 1 6%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 97. 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 28 January 2022.
All research outputs
#469,822
of 26,617,554 outputs
Outputs from Science
#11,354
of 84,236 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,457
of 333,461 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#372
of 1,217 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,617,554 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 84,236 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 333,461 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,217 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 69% of its contemporaries.