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A trick of the moonlight

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, February 2003
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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 (90th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet

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2 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A trick of the moonlight
Published in
Nature, February 2003
DOI 10.1038/421695a
Authors

Maurice Hershenson

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 1 50%
Lecturer 1 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 1 50%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 50%
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 23 March 2023.
All research outputs
#3,946,255
of 23,575,882 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#53,283
of 92,694 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,093
of 128,638 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#123
of 337 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,575,882 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 92,694 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.5. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 128,638 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 337 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 62% of its contemporaries.