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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
10 news outlets
twitter
29 X users

Readers on

mendeley
27 Mendeley
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 15%
Researcher 4 15%
Student > Master 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Student > Bachelor 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 12 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 4%
Unknown 13 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. 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 21 June 2020.
All research outputs
#494,627
of 28,584,462 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#8,151
of 70,335 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,042
of 439,947 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#199
of 1,607 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,584,462 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 70,335 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 52.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 439,947 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,607 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.