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Academia's obsession with quantity

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 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 (96th percentile)

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blogs
2 blogs
twitter
119 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
13 Facebook pages
googleplus
8 Google+ users
f1000
1 research highlight platform

Readers on

mendeley
708 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Academia's obsession with quantity
Published in
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2012.05.010
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 35 5%
United States 23 3%
Germany 11 2%
France 9 1%
Canada 8 1%
United Kingdom 7 <1%
Argentina 5 <1%
Switzerland 5 <1%
Mexico 4 <1%
Other 27 4%
Unknown 574 81%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 202 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 124 18%
Student > Master 66 9%
Professor 57 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 43 6%
Other 144 20%
Unknown 72 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 355 50%
Environmental Science 135 19%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 24 3%
Social Sciences 21 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 1%
Other 56 8%
Unknown 107 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 102. 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 02 November 2016.
All research outputs
#519,536
of 34,286,339 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#268
of 3,760 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,197
of 212,469 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#1
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,286,339 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,760 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 25 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 96% of its contemporaries.