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Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors

Overview of attention for news story in Nature
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Title
Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors
Published by
Nature, February 2016
DOI 10.1038/530027a
Pubmed ID
Authors

David B. Allison, Andrew W. Brown, Brandon J. George, Kathryn A. Kaiser

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
United Kingdom 3 1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 215 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 52 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 14%
Student > Master 21 9%
Other 20 9%
Professor 20 9%
Other 59 25%
Unknown 29 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 10%
Computer Science 15 6%
Social Sciences 10 4%
Other 87 37%
Unknown 44 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1057. 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 14 March 2024.
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#14,895
of 25,589,756 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#1,517
of 98,331 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#189
of 407,005 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#27
of 887 outputs
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