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The airborne contagiousness of respiratory viruses: A comparative analysis and implications for mitigation

Overview of attention for article published in Geoscience Frontiers, August 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 (#8 of 598)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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2 news outlets
twitter
254 X users
reddit
5 Redditors
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3 Bluesky users

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90 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The airborne contagiousness of respiratory viruses: A comparative analysis and implications for mitigation
Published in
Geoscience Frontiers, August 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101285
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 11%
Student > Master 6 7%
Other 4 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 3%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 44 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 12 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 7%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 3%
Other 20 22%
Unknown 42 47%
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 14 December 2025.
All research outputs
#270,822
of 34,357,314 outputs
Outputs from Geoscience Frontiers
#8
of 598 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,931
of 464,553 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Geoscience Frontiers
#2
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,357,314 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 598 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. 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 464,553 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 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.