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Viewpoint – Ocean plastic pollution: A convenient but distracting truth?

Overview of attention for article published in Marine Policy, May 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 3,819)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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Title
Viewpoint – Ocean plastic pollution: A convenient but distracting truth?
Published in
Marine Policy, May 2019
DOI 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.003
Authors

Richard Stafford, Peter J.S. Jones

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 455 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 63 14%
Student > Bachelor 62 14%
Researcher 48 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 10%
Other 18 4%
Other 58 13%
Unknown 159 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 89 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 62 14%
Engineering 19 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 16 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 13 3%
Other 82 18%
Unknown 174 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 533. 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 17 April 2023.
All research outputs
#47,548
of 25,846,867 outputs
Outputs from Marine Policy
#5
of 3,819 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#925
of 364,724 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Marine Policy
#1
of 37 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,846,867 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 3,819 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. 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 364,724 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 37 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 97% of its contemporaries.