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How Seeing Became Knowing: The Role of the Electron Microscope in Shaping the Modern Definition of Viruses

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the History of Biology, June 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 482)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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4 news outlets
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2 X users

Citations

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Title
How Seeing Became Knowing: The Role of the Electron Microscope in Shaping the Modern Definition of Viruses
Published in
Journal of the History of Biology, June 2018
DOI 10.1007/s10739-018-9530-2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ton van Helvoort, Neeraja Sankaran

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 28%
Student > Bachelor 3 17%
Lecturer 2 11%
Other 1 6%
Student > Master 1 6%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 4 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 22%
Neuroscience 2 11%
Social Sciences 2 11%
Philosophy 1 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 6 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. 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 09 December 2021.
All research outputs
#945,607
of 22,660,862 outputs
Outputs from Journal of the History of Biology
#8
of 482 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,021
of 326,882 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the History of Biology
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,660,862 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 482 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 326,882 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them