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A Faustian bargain

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, October 2010
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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 (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
14 blogs
twitter
55 X users
facebook
14 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
3 Google+ users
reddit
8 Redditors
bluesky
3 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
61 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
A Faustian bargain
Published in
Genome Biology, October 2010
DOI 10.1186/gb-2010-11-10-138
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 61 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 7%
United Kingdom 4 7%
Argentina 2 3%
Finland 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 48 79%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 34%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 15%
Professor 8 13%
Other 4 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Other 11 18%
Unknown 4 7%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 39%
Computer Science 5 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Arts and Humanities 4 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Other 15 25%
Unknown 5 8%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 133. 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 29 April 2026.
All research outputs
#394,023
of 34,331,336 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#133
of 5,606 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,017
of 154,886 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#2
of 45 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,331,336 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 5,606 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 154,886 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 45 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 95% of its contemporaries.