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Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, April 2021
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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)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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240 Mendeley
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 240 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 50 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 14%
Student > Master 20 8%
Other 16 7%
Student > Bachelor 12 5%
Other 30 13%
Unknown 79 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 54 23%
Environmental Science 44 18%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 15 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 3%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 97 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 162. 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 01 August 2025.
All research outputs
#309,946
of 33,113,076 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#15,913
of 115,706 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,215
of 473,595 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#320
of 896 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,113,076 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 115,706 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 96.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 473,595 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 896 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 64% of its contemporaries.