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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 (96th percentile)

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Title
Friday essay: how ancient beliefs in underwater worlds can shed light in a time of rising sea levels
Published by
The Conversation, August 2021
DOI 10.64628/aa.kyv3erhqn
Authors

Nunn, Patrick, Patrick D. Nunn

Abstract

From Fiji to France to Central Australia, stories abound of lands lost beneath the sea. Some are likely founded on millennia-old memories of coastal submergence, offering us clues today.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 13 August 2024.
All research outputs
#771,296
of 32,467,411 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#90,762
of 203,328 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,113
of 454,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#669
of 877 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,467,411 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 203,328 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% 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 454,877 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 96% of its contemporaries.
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