| Title |
How Academic Biologists and Physicists View Science Outreach
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2012
|
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0036240 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sarah A. James, Anne E. Lincoln |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 470 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 172 | 37% |
| United Kingdom | 48 | 10% |
| Canada | 23 | 5% |
| Australia | 18 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 12 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 5 | 1% |
| Spain | 5 | 1% |
| Germany | 4 | <1% |
| Ireland | 4 | <1% |
| Other | 38 | 8% |
| Unknown | 141 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 281 | 60% |
| Scientists | 159 | 34% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 23 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 306 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 273 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 73 | 24% |
| Researcher | 46 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 32 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 19 | 6% |
| Other | 72 | 24% |
| Unknown | 35 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 75 | 25% |
| Social Sciences | 60 | 20% |
| Environmental Science | 28 | 9% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 22 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 4% |
| Other | 69 | 23% |
| Unknown | 40 | 13% |