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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
twitter
2 X users

Readers on

mendeley
55 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 55 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 11%
Student > Master 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Researcher 3 5%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 28 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Chemistry 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 29 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 April 2018.
All research outputs
#3,525,716
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#34,512
of 58,133 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,010
of 351,970 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#765
of 1,197 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 58,133 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 55.5. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 351,970 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,197 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.