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Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

Overview of attention for article published in Science, January 2015
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
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Article details
Title
Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean
Published in
Science, January 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.1255641
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 31 1%
Germany 8 <1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Sweden 4 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
Spain 4 <1%
France 4 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Belgium 3 <1%
Other 23 1%
Unknown 2180 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 383 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 379 17%
Student > Master 323 14%
Student > Bachelor 278 12%
Other 93 4%
Other 311 14%
Unknown 503 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 758 33%
Environmental Science 546 24%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 112 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 68 3%
Social Sciences 42 2%
Other 147 6%
Unknown 597 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 901. 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 17 April 2026.
All research outputs
#24,345
of 34,565,638 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,099
of 94,189 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#169
of 410,191 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#12
of 1,129 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,565,638 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 94,189 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 1,129 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 98% of its contemporaries.