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The proper place of hopeful monsters in evolutionary biology

Overview of attention for article published in Theory in Biosciences, December 2005
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 217)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

Mentioned by

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5 news outlets
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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96 Dimensions

Readers on

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138 Mendeley
Title
The proper place of hopeful monsters in evolutionary biology
Published in
Theory in Biosciences, December 2005
DOI 10.1016/j.thbio.2005.11.002
Pubmed ID
Authors

Günter Theißen

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 4%
Germany 3 2%
Colombia 2 1%
New Zealand 2 1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 114 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 20%
Student > Bachelor 27 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 19%
Student > Master 11 8%
Professor 8 6%
Other 26 19%
Unknown 12 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 87 63%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 8%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 9 7%
Computer Science 4 3%
Environmental Science 3 2%
Other 10 7%
Unknown 14 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 14 February 2024.
All research outputs
#923,821
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Theory in Biosciences
#4
of 217 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,908
of 171,993 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Theory in Biosciences
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 217 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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