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Salt enhances flavour by suppressing bitterness

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, June 1997
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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 (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
37 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
34 X users
patent
12 patents
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
reddit
31 Redditors
video
4 YouTube creators
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
134 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Salt enhances flavour by suppressing bitterness
Published in
Nature, June 1997
DOI 10.1038/42388
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 134 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 129 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 17%
Student > Bachelor 15 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 10%
Researcher 14 10%
Other 8 6%
Other 24 18%
Unknown 36 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 4%
Chemistry 6 4%
Engineering 4 3%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 51 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 383. 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 28 August 2026.
All research outputs
#100,600
of 34,245,361 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#6,390
of 117,211 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24
of 42,458 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#5
of 286 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,245,361 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 117,211 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 95.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 42,458 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 286 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 98% of its contemporaries.