You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Animal Cognition, April 2018
|
| DOI | 10.1007/s10071-018-1181-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hannah K. Worsley, Sean J. O’Hara |
| Abstract |
Referential gestures are used by a signaller to draw a recipient's attention to a specific object, individual or event in the environment. These gestures have received much research attention in relation to human and non-human primates with great apes being shown to possess impressive gestural repertoires. Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) meanwhile provide an ideal non-primate candidate for investigating referential signalling due to their unique relationship with humans that centres on non-verbal communication with frequent interaction. Here we observed 37 pet dogs in their own homes. Owners recorded 242 videos containing 47 potential referential gesture events. We analysed those recordings to reveal evidence of 19 referential gestures performed by domestic dogs during everyday communicative bouts with humans, showing that the gestures conform to the five features of referential signalling. Our study exposes impressive gesturing abilities in a non-primate mammal; especially when viewed in the context of the cross-species rather than intraspecific communication. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 77 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 | 17 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 9% |
| Spain | 7 | 9% |
| Ireland | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Comoros | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Norway | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 29 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 60 | 78% |
| Scientists | 11 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 111 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 111 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 14% |
| Researcher | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 15% |
| Unknown | 27 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 26 | 23% |
| Psychology | 19 | 17% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 10 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 11% |
| Unknown | 34 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 519. 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 25 September 2022.
All research outputs
#49,421
of 25,706,302 outputs
Outputs from Animal Cognition
#15
of 1,583 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,113
of 339,465 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Animal Cognition
#1
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,706,302 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,583 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 339,465 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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 94% of its contemporaries.