Table 1 Descriptive statistics and correlation coefficients.

From: The inverted U-shaped relationship between knowledge diversity of researchers and societal impact

Variables

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

1. Altmetric attention score

1.000

           

2. Tweets mentioned count

0.735

1.000

          

(0.000)

           

3. Subject count

0.157

0.209

1.000

         

(0.000)

(0.000)

          

4. Organization count

0.206

0.187

0.662

1.000

        

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

         

5. Author count

0.157

0.149

0.428

0.761

1.000

       

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

        

6. Journal

0.006

− 0.053

0.008

− 0.038

− 0.033

1.000

      

(0.807)

(0.036)

(0.752)

(0.139)

(0.188)

       

7. Time lag

0.056

0.035

− 0.027

− 0.018

− 0.034

0.007

1.000

     

(0.027)

(0.169)

(0.279)

(0.472)

(0.180)

(0.783)

      

8. Fields_Physical sciences and engineering

− 0.135

− 0.300

− 0.262

− 0.096

− 0.043

0.064

− 0.025

1.000

    

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.091)

(0.012)

(0.332)

     

9. Fields_Life and earth sciences

0.265

0.255

0.093

0.032

− 0.035

0.015

0.009

− 0.360

1.000

   

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.202)

(0.170)

(0.553)

(0.726)

(0.000)

    

10. Fields_Biomedical and health sciences

− 0.095

0.127

0.225

0.066

0.093

− 0.056

0.045

− 0.635

− 0.195

1.000

  

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.009)

(0.000)

(0.028)

(0.078)

(0.000)

(0.000)

   

11. Fields_Social sciences and humanities

0.213

0.149

0.009

0.004

− 0.043

0.039

0.017

− 0.132

0.077

− 0.112

1.000

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

(0.718)

(0.877)

(0.094)

(0.120)

(0.514)

(0.000)

(0.003)

(0.000)

  

12.Fields_Mathematics and computer science

0.044

0.005

− 0.067

− 0.064

− 0.043

− 0.037

0.019

0.060

− 0.066

− 0.079

0.020

1.000

(0.085)

(0.840)

(0.009)

(0.012)

(0.092)

(0.147)

(0.449)

(0.018)

(0.010)

(0.002)

(0.422)

 

Mean

281.75

171.03

4.421

7.979

14.472

0.452

1492.96

0.342

0.273

0.506

0.032

0.023

Standard deviation

360.22

226.82

2.768

9.368

18.932

0.498

103.057

0.475

0.446

0.5

0.177

0.15

  1. P-value are in parentheses. Journal and all fields are both dummy variables.