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The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, October 2012
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Article details
Title
The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils
Published in
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, October 2012
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.1745
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 12 1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Canada 5 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Poland 2 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 9 1%
Unknown 761 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 187 23%
Student > Bachelor 125 15%
Researcher 110 14%
Student > Master 91 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 33 4%
Other 105 13%
Unknown 156 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 258 32%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 153 19%
Arts and Humanities 37 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 27 3%
Chemistry 25 3%
Other 131 16%
Unknown 176 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 561. 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 16 October 2026.
All research outputs
#54,661
of 34,599,687 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#116
of 12,455 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#204
of 229,584 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#1
of 79 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,599,687 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 12,455 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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