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Special sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)

Overview of attention for article published in Synthese, October 1974
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

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1 blog
twitter
7 X users
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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348 Mendeley
Title
Special sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)
Published in
Synthese, October 1974
DOI 10.1007/bf00485230
Authors

J. A. Fodor

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 2%
Germany 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 326 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 107 31%
Student > Master 52 15%
Researcher 38 11%
Student > Bachelor 28 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 21 6%
Other 61 18%
Unknown 41 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 153 44%
Psychology 46 13%
Social Sciences 24 7%
Arts and Humanities 16 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 3%
Other 56 16%
Unknown 42 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 08 April 2023.
All research outputs
#2,388,362
of 25,468,789 outputs
Outputs from Synthese
#174
of 2,729 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#103
of 3,961 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Synthese
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,468,789 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,729 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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