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by ebiester 1813 days ago
In general, an averagely successful paper in most disciplines will get 200-250 readers. It’s only when there is outsized media attention that there is any issue.

And luckily, for those cases today, sci-hub is available.
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worik 1813 days ago
A lot more readers than that, surely? In most disciplines there are a lot of, er, disciples. What is the definition of "moderately successful?"

Perhaps you mean citations?

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pmyteh 1813 days ago
The modal number of citations for an academic paper is ~0. 200 citations is a very successful paper in any discipline.
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