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Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos

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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos
Published by
Nature, April 2015
DOI 10.1038/nature.2015.17378
Authors

David Cyranoski, Sara Reardon

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Unknown 280 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 98 34%
Student > Master 41 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 8%
Researcher 19 7%
Other 14 5%
Other 38 13%
Unknown 54 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 66 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 55 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 26 9%
Engineering 15 5%
Chemistry 11 4%
Other 49 17%
Unknown 65 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4494. 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 12 April 2024.
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#985
of 25,813,008 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#88
of 98,835 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3
of 281,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#1
of 1,003 outputs
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