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Type 2 diabetes: new genes, new understanding

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Genetics, October 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (80th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (57th percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
patent
2 patents

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mendeley
211 Mendeley
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2 CiteULike
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2 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Type 2 diabetes: new genes, new understanding
Published in
Trends in Genetics, October 2008
DOI 10.1016/j.tig.2008.09.004
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 211 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Costa Rica 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 200 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 48 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 19%
Student > Master 29 14%
Student > Bachelor 17 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 6%
Other 32 15%
Unknown 31 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 79 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 38 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 13%
Engineering 6 3%
Arts and Humanities 4 2%
Other 19 9%
Unknown 37 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 21 February 2013.
All research outputs
#5,953,801
of 34,054,827 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Genetics
#1,023
of 2,893 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,981
of 146,369 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Genetics
#6
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,054,827 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,893 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% 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 146,369 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.