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Preliminary Study of Vertebral Growth Rings in the Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus, from the East Coast of South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Biology of Fishes, December 2000
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 1,869)
  • 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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4 news outlets
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1 policy source
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2 X users
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4 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Preliminary Study of Vertebral Growth Rings in the Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus, from the East Coast of South Africa
Published in
Environmental Biology of Fishes, December 2000
DOI 10.1023/a:1026564707027
Authors

Sabine P. Wintner

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
Australia 2 2%
Colombia 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Mozambique 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Sri Lanka 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 113 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 36 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 20%
Student > Bachelor 16 13%
Student > Master 14 11%
Professor 8 6%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 10 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 85 68%
Environmental Science 17 14%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 2%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 <1%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 12 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. 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 07 May 2022.
All research outputs
#1,034,755
of 25,083,571 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Biology of Fishes
#36
of 1,869 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,142
of 116,182 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Biology of Fishes
#1
of 7 outputs
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