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Re:SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion by prezjordan on Sunday October 14, 2012 @07:18PM (#4652950)
How on earth do the submissions have that score?
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Re:SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion by mrstew on Sunday October 14, 2012 @07:58PM (#4653035)
It's the Altmetric score I think.

https://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/83337...

Based on number of tweets, blog posts, news stories etc.

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Re:SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion by clowder on Monday October 15, 2012 @06:51AM (#4654489)
That’s right. We also apply a HN style decay to the scores, along with a boost for open content.
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