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Distribution and socio-ecological impacts of the invasive alien cactus Opuntia stricta in eastern Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Biological Invasions, May 2017
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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2 news outlets
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12 X users
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5 Facebook pages

Citations

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181 Mendeley
Title
Distribution and socio-ecological impacts of the invasive alien cactus Opuntia stricta in eastern Africa
Published in
Biological Invasions, May 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10530-017-1453-x
Authors

Ross T. Shackleton, Arne B. R. Witt, Francis M. Piroris, Brian W. van Wilgen

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 181 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 30 17%
Student > Bachelor 27 15%
Researcher 23 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 11%
Other 9 5%
Other 21 12%
Unknown 51 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 44 24%
Environmental Science 41 23%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 4%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 21 12%
Unknown 57 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 02 April 2024.
All research outputs
#1,262,611
of 25,626,416 outputs
Outputs from Biological Invasions
#162
of 2,546 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,445
of 324,927 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biological Invasions
#5
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,626,416 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,546 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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