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Optimum human population size

Overview of attention for article published in Population and Environment, July 1994
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 325)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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59 Dimensions

Readers on

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57 Mendeley
Title
Optimum human population size
Published in
Population and Environment, July 1994
DOI 10.1007/bf02211719
Authors

Gretchen C. Daily, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Ehrlich

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 4%
Australia 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Spain 1 2%
Iceland 1 2%
Unknown 51 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 23%
Student > Bachelor 12 21%
Researcher 7 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 8 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 11 19%
Social Sciences 11 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 12%
Engineering 4 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 7%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 10 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. 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 27 January 2023.
All research outputs
#1,046,363
of 23,906,448 outputs
Outputs from Population and Environment
#27
of 325 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#199
of 22,304 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Population and Environment
#1
of 1 outputs
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