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Homology: Why We Know a Whale Is Not a Fish

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution: Education and Outreach, October 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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Title
Homology: Why We Know a Whale Is Not a Fish
Published in
Evolution: Education and Outreach, October 2009
DOI 10.1007/s12052-009-0183-7
Authors

Andrew J. Petto, Louise S. Mead

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 13%
Brazil 2 6%
Thailand 1 3%
Unknown 25 78%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 22%
Student > Master 4 13%
Professor 4 13%
Other 3 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 9%
Other 9 28%
Unknown 2 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 44%
Social Sciences 6 19%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 13%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 3 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 13 February 2023.
All research outputs
#4,101,064
of 24,494,826 outputs
Outputs from Evolution: Education and Outreach
#197
of 557 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,773
of 97,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolution: Education and Outreach
#3
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,494,826 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 557 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 97,828 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.