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Do frogs really eat cardamom? Understanding the myth of crop damage by amphibians in the Western Ghats, India

Overview of attention for article published in Ambio, February 2017
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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 (85th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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Title
Do frogs really eat cardamom? Understanding the myth of crop damage by amphibians in the Western Ghats, India
Published in
Ambio, February 2017
DOI 10.1007/s13280-017-0908-8
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Authors

Arun Kanagavel, Sethu Parvathy, Nithula Nirmal, Nithin Divakar, Rajeev Raghavan

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 31 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 19%
Student > Master 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Researcher 3 10%
Librarian 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 11 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 35%
Environmental Science 3 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Psychology 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 11 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 09 March 2024.
All research outputs
#2,577,600
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Ambio
#473
of 1,817 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,300
of 324,639 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ambio
#15
of 42 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,858 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,817 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 42 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its contemporaries.