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Caution over the use of ecological big data for conservation

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, July 2021
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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 (88th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Caution over the use of ecological big data for conservation
Published in
Nature, July 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-03463-w
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 19%
Student > Master 5 14%
Researcher 5 14%
Unspecified 1 3%
Lecturer 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 14 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 9 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 19%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Mathematics 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 16 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 16 June 2022.
All research outputs
#2,524,676
of 28,497,789 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#49,141
of 105,353 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,390
of 459,393 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#704
of 921 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,497,789 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 105,353 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% 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 459,393 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 921 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 23rd percentile – i.e., 23% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.