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The walking dead: Blender as a tool for paleontologists with a case study on extinct arachnids

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Paleontology, July 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 1,849)
  • 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)

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news
22 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
2 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
9 Wikipedia pages
video
1 YouTube creator

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mendeley
88 Mendeley
Article details
Title
The walking dead: Blender as a tool for paleontologists with a case study on extinct arachnids
Published in
Journal of Paleontology, July 2015
DOI 10.1666/13-088
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Argentina 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 82 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 19%
Student > Bachelor 14 16%
Student > Master 12 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 3%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 14 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 31%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 26 30%
Environmental Science 5 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 15 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 180. 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 08 March 2024.
All research outputs
#251,907
of 28,840,878 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Paleontology
#14
of 1,849 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,280
of 280,515 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Paleontology
#1
of 404 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,840,878 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 1,849 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 404 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.