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What's Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty

Overview of attention for article published in Theory, Culture & Society, February 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#48 of 1,145)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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73 X users
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2 Facebook pages

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Title
What's Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty
Published in
Theory, Culture & Society, February 2019
DOI 10.1177/0263276419826276
Authors

Elena Esposito, David Stark

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 105 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 21%
Student > Master 16 15%
Researcher 12 11%
Professor 10 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 9%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 16 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 49 47%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 22%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Physics and Astronomy 2 2%
Engineering 2 2%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 19 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 44. 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 04 March 2022.
All research outputs
#970,606
of 25,877,363 outputs
Outputs from Theory, Culture & Society
#48
of 1,145 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,466
of 369,574 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Theory, Culture & Society
#3
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,877,363 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,145 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 369,574 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.