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Grandmothering and natural selection

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, August 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
twitter
1 X user
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
2 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
190 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Grandmothering and natural selection
Published in
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, August 2010
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2010.1247
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
France 2 1%
Italy 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 178 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 26%
Researcher 42 22%
Student > Master 25 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 13%
Professor 7 4%
Other 24 13%
Unknown 19 10%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 85 45%
Social Sciences 27 14%
Psychology 11 6%
Arts and Humanities 11 6%
Environmental Science 10 5%
Other 21 11%
Unknown 25 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 05 October 2026.
All research outputs
#833,933
of 34,518,784 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#1,898
of 12,423 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,172
of 150,369 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#8
of 103 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,518,784 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 12,423 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 43.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% 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 150,369 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 103 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 92% of its contemporaries.