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How predictable is technological progress?

Overview of attention for article published in Research Policy, April 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 2,557)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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Title
How predictable is technological progress?
Published in
Research Policy, April 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.respol.2015.11.001
Authors

J. Doyne Farmer, François Lafond

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 475 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 88 18%
Student > Master 74 15%
Researcher 58 12%
Student > Bachelor 47 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 32 7%
Other 73 15%
Unknown 113 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 69 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 48 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 38 8%
Energy 32 7%
Social Sciences 31 6%
Other 127 26%
Unknown 140 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 575. 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 11 September 2023.
All research outputs
#41,045
of 25,482,409 outputs
Outputs from Research Policy
#4
of 2,557 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#745
of 314,933 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research Policy
#2
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,482,409 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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