↓ Skip to main content

The performance and potential of protected areas

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, November 2014
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • 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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
23 news outlets
blogs
12 blogs
policy
7 policy sources
twitter
409 X users
facebook
24 Facebook pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

dimensions_citation
1482 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
2798 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
The performance and potential of protected areas
Published in
Nature, November 2014
DOI 10.1038/nature13947
Pubmed ID
Authors

James E. M. Watson, Nigel Dudley, Daniel B. Segan, Marc Hockings

Abstract

Originally conceived to conserve iconic landscapes and wildlife, protected areas are now expected to achieve an increasingly diverse set of conservation, social and economic objectives. The amount of land and sea designated as formally protected has markedly increased over the past century, but there is still a major shortfall in political commitments to enhance the coverage and effectiveness of protected areas. Financial support for protected areas is dwarfed by the benefits that they provide, but these returns depend on effective management. A step change involving increased recognition, funding, planning and enforcement is urgently needed if protected areas are going to fulfil their potential.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 409 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2,798 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 16 <1%
United Kingdom 16 <1%
Brazil 11 <1%
Canada 7 <1%
Italy 6 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Finland 3 <1%
South Africa 3 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Other 28 1%
Unknown 2700 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 534 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 427 15%
Researcher 404 14%
Student > Bachelor 325 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 144 5%
Other 390 14%
Unknown 574 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 909 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 780 28%
Social Sciences 100 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 97 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 39 1%
Other 178 6%
Unknown 695 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 549. 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 11 October 2023.
All research outputs
#44,279
of 25,455,127 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#3,770
of 97,988 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#318
of 276,401 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#38
of 1,081 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,455,127 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 97,988 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 276,401 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 1,081 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 96% of its contemporaries.