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Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

Overview of attention for article published in Science, January 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
5 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
42 X users
googleplus
1 Google+ user
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1 research highlight platform

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X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 42 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,972 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 22 1%
Germany 13 <1%
Brazil 10 <1%
Japan 10 <1%
Spain 9 <1%
France 9 <1%
United Kingdom 7 <1%
South Africa 6 <1%
Sweden 6 <1%
Other 59 3%
Unknown 1821 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 416 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 395 20%
Student > Master 209 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 122 6%
Student > Bachelor 108 5%
Other 359 18%
Unknown 363 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 761 39%
Environmental Science 498 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 77 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 33 2%
Engineering 20 1%
Other 101 5%
Unknown 482 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 16 November 2023.
All research outputs
#811,835
of 34,425,846 outputs
Outputs from Science
#16,245
of 94,082 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,977
of 302,186 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#68
of 737 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,425,846 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 94,082 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 well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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 302,186 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 737 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 90% of its contemporaries.