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The early bird gets the worm: foraging strategies of wild songbirds lead to the early discovery of food sources

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Letters, December 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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12 news outlets
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9 X users
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1 Facebook page
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1 Bluesky user

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104 Mendeley
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3 CiteULike
Article details
Title
The early bird gets the worm: foraging strategies of wild songbirds lead to the early discovery of food sources
Published in
Biology Letters, December 2013
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0578
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 3%
Germany 3 3%
United States 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 94 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 19%
Researcher 19 18%
Student > Bachelor 15 14%
Student > Master 12 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 4%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 24 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 51%
Environmental Science 14 13%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 2%
Psychology 2 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 <1%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 27 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 102. 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 10 May 2016.
All research outputs
#497,933
of 31,807,788 outputs
Outputs from Biology Letters
#512
of 3,822 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,152
of 356,042 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biology Letters
#10
of 77 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,807,788 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,822 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 60.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 356,042 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 77 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.