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Language is land, land is language: The importance of Indigenous languages

Overview of attention for article published in Human Geography, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 355)
  • 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
5 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
164 X users
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18 Bluesky users

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126 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Language is land, land is language: The importance of Indigenous languages
Published in
Human Geography, June 2021
DOI 10.1177/19427786211022899
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 126 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 12 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 9%
Student > Master 8 6%
Researcher 6 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 66 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 13%
Arts and Humanities 15 12%
Linguistics 4 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 65 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 186. 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 27 August 2026.
All research outputs
#272,596
of 34,652,893 outputs
Outputs from Human Geography
#3
of 355 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,198
of 489,062 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Geography
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,652,893 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 355 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 489,062 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 14 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.