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Seeing Distinct Groups Where There are None: Spurious Patterns from Between-Group PCA

Overview of attention for article published in Evolutionary Biology, October 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#42 of 336)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Title
Seeing Distinct Groups Where There are None: Spurious Patterns from Between-Group PCA
Published in
Evolutionary Biology, October 2019
DOI 10.1007/s11692-019-09487-5
Authors

Andrea Cardini, Paul O’Higgins, F. James Rohlf

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Professor 9 9%
Student > Master 7 7%
Other 21 21%
Unknown 13 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 44 44%
Environmental Science 8 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 5%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 21 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 May 2020.
All research outputs
#2,164,276
of 25,743,152 outputs
Outputs from Evolutionary Biology
#42
of 336 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,210
of 372,299 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolutionary Biology
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,743,152 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 336 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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