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Plastic debris in the open ocean

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 2014
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
177 news outlets
blogs
37 blogs
policy
16 policy sources
twitter
198 X users
patent
2 patents
facebook
25 Facebook pages
wikipedia
26 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
9 Google+ users
reddit
14 Redditors

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mendeley
4195 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Plastic debris in the open ocean
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 2014
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1314705111
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 4,195 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 16 <1%
Brazil 11 <1%
Belgium 6 <1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Spain 5 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Chile 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
France 3 <1%
Other 20 <1%
Unknown 4118 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 692 16%
Student > Master 574 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 482 11%
Researcher 420 10%
Other 136 3%
Other 536 13%
Unknown 1355 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 828 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 624 15%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 219 5%
Engineering 217 5%
Chemistry 186 4%
Other 608 14%
Unknown 1513 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1816. 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 01 July 2026.
All research outputs
#6,591
of 34,447,360 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#204
of 119,063 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25
of 275,080 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#3
of 927 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,447,360 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 119,063 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 275,080 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 927 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.