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What is Shannon information?

Overview of attention for article published in Synthese, July 2015
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Title
What is Shannon information?
Published in
Synthese, July 2015
DOI 10.1007/s11229-015-0824-z
Authors

Olimpia Lombardi, Federico Holik, Leonardo Vanni

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 116 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 22%
Researcher 22 18%
Student > Bachelor 14 12%
Student > Master 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 23 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 14 12%
Engineering 14 12%
Computer Science 11 9%
Psychology 8 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 6%
Other 42 35%
Unknown 25 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 19 December 2016.
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#16,418,057
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Outputs from Synthese
#1,572
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#134,593
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Outputs of similar age from Synthese
#22
of 39 outputs
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