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The wisdom, and madness, of crowds

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, December 2008
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  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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6 X users

Citations

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19 Mendeley
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Title
The wisdom, and madness, of crowds
Published in
Genome Biology, December 2008
DOI 10.1186/gb-2008-9-11-112
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gregory A Petsko

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 5%
Sweden 1 5%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1 5%
France 1 5%
Unknown 15 79%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 32%
Student > Master 3 16%
Other 2 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 4 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 3 16%
Psychology 2 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 11%
Engineering 2 11%
Computer Science 1 5%
Other 5 26%
Unknown 4 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 13 April 2024.
All research outputs
#6,869,833
of 25,709,917 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#3,185
of 4,504 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,890
of 181,242 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#9
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,709,917 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,504 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.6. This one is in the 28th percentile – i.e., 28% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 181,242 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 47th percentile – i.e., 47% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.