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A theory of biological pattern formation

Overview of attention for article published in Kybernetik, December 1972
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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 (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
5 blogs
twitter
5 X users
patent
4 patents
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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2572 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
811 Mendeley
citeulike
6 CiteULike
connotea
4 Connotea
Title
A theory of biological pattern formation
Published in
Kybernetik, December 1972
DOI 10.1007/bf00289234
Pubmed ID
Authors

A. Gierer, H. Meinhardt

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 16 2%
Germany 10 1%
United Kingdom 8 <1%
Switzerland 4 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 10 1%
Unknown 752 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 213 26%
Researcher 137 17%
Student > Master 96 12%
Student > Bachelor 88 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 49 6%
Other 127 16%
Unknown 101 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 235 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 119 15%
Physics and Astronomy 94 12%
Mathematics 57 7%
Engineering 57 7%
Other 141 17%
Unknown 108 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 24 December 2023.
All research outputs
#1,037,033
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Kybernetik
#1
of 26 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#64
of 18,238 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Kybernetik
#1
of 2 outputs
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 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 26 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.1. This one scored the same or higher as 25 of them.
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