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| Title |
The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-439 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sarah Catherine Walpole, David Prieto-Merino, Phil Edwards, John Cleland, Gretchen Stevens, Ian Roberts |
| Abstract |
The energy requirement of species at each trophic level in an ecological pyramid is a function of the number of organisms and their average mass. Regarding human populations, although considerable attention is given to estimating the number of people, much less is given to estimating average mass, despite evidence that average body mass is increasing. We estimate global human biomass, its distribution by region and the proportion of biomass due to overweight and obesity. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 427 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 83 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 41 | 10% |
| Australia | 32 | 7% |
| Canada | 13 | 3% |
| Japan | 12 | 3% |
| India | 10 | 2% |
| Sweden | 8 | 2% |
| Brazil | 7 | 2% |
| France | 6 | 1% |
| Other | 60 | 14% |
| Unknown | 155 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 343 | 80% |
| Scientists | 47 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 23 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 14 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,057 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Egypt | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | <1% |
| Unknown | 1031 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 209 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 153 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 146 | 14% |
| Researcher | 114 | 11% |
| Other | 52 | 5% |
| Other | 142 | 13% |
| Unknown | 241 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 188 | 18% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 113 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 100 | 9% |
| Environmental Science | 73 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 49 | 5% |
| Other | 254 | 24% |
| Unknown | 280 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1158. 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 27 February 2024.
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#12,818
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8
of 17,781 outputs
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#29
of 178,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#1
of 274 outputs
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