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The global threat from plastic pollution

Overview of attention for article published in Science, July 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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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news
102 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
264 X users
patent
1 patent
wikipedia
12 Wikipedia pages
reddit
7 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
2484 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The global threat from plastic pollution
Published in
Science, July 2021
DOI 10.1126/science.abg5433
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2484 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 216 9%
Researcher 177 7%
Student > Bachelor 174 7%
Student > Master 153 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 58 2%
Other 272 11%
Unknown 1434 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 214 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 120 5%
Chemistry 111 4%
Engineering 105 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 77 3%
Other 335 13%
Unknown 1522 61%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 998. 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 07 May 2026.
All research outputs
#20,531
of 34,636,286 outputs
Outputs from Science
#961
of 94,250 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#717
of 483,739 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#30
of 811 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,636,286 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 94,250 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 66.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 483,739 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 811 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 96% of its contemporaries.