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The cost of natural selection

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Genetics, December 1957
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 673)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
17 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
video
3 YouTube creators

Citations

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561 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
438 Mendeley
Title
The cost of natural selection
Published in
Journal of Genetics, December 1957
DOI 10.1007/bf02984069
Authors

J. B. S. Haldane

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 2%
United Kingdom 6 1%
Brazil 5 1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Austria 3 <1%
Argentina 3 <1%
Norway 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Other 9 2%
Unknown 393 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 116 26%
Researcher 74 17%
Student > Master 42 10%
Student > Bachelor 42 10%
Professor 34 8%
Other 86 20%
Unknown 44 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 247 56%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 48 11%
Environmental Science 27 6%
Computer Science 10 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 9 2%
Other 45 10%
Unknown 52 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 163. 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 05 January 2024.
All research outputs
#253,620
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Genetics
#1
of 673 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7
of 6,199 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Genetics
#1
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Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 673 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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